Word: straightforwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agents. Increasingly, companies are turning to the Big Five accounting firms that certify their financial books. The auditing of environmental and social reports--and related consulting services--is opening up a whole new area of business for accounting firms, but it does not come headache free. "It's not straightforward financial numbers crunching," explains Glen Peters, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London...
...foster a non-competitive camaraderie because of our structure and the open, straightforward, friendly board selection process," writes Ginwala in an e-mail message...
...real world is never far away. In contrast to older children's novels which featured white-bread boys' schools, Rowling's Hogwarts School is co-ed, and its pupils come from diverse ethnic backgrounds. And like so many of today's movies and TV programs, Rowling's story is straightforward about the tragedies and violence in its characters' lives. Harry has painful memories of his mother screaming as she is brutally murdered, and each book contains descriptions of suffering and tragedy...
Astronomers looking for black holes have long known that the deck is stacked against them. In order to find a heavenly body, sky gazers ordinarily take a straightforward approach, hoping simply to eyeball the object through a telescope. But black holes, which are formed by collapsed stars or compressed matter at the center of galaxies, are so dense that nothing--not even light--can escape their gravity. Last week, however, investigators at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., announced that they had at last seen direct evidence of a black hole in action...
...written to an unspecified recipient. Nearing the end of his freshman year, Charlie realizes what he likes about a certain book, and his description serves to explain the appeal of his own narrative: "It wasn't like you had to really search for the philosophy. It was pretty straightforward, I thought, and the great part is that I took what the author wrote about and put it in terms of my own life...