Word: stupidity
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...scandal, top executives can be seen running from headquarters mumbling that they are shocked to learn that there was gambling going on in the casino. But there's not much of that here. Enron and Andersen officials hardly deny the dubious deals, the 881 offshore tax havens or the stupid accounting tricks. That's partly because nobody can be sure that those dodges were inherently illegal. Many companies maintain similar arrangements, usually intended to avoid taxes--a benefit of interest to Enron too. Enron avoided paying federal income tax for four out of the last five years and instead received...
Call me Ishtar. That's good enough, don't you think? I mean, who would call it plagiarism, given that exceptionally clever change I made? And, if they did, so what? I could always say that my stupid, sloppy researcher forgot to include quotation marks, so I thought I was only stealing from my researcher. Of course, the sentence I lifted isn't quite the original, so some fussbudget might say that I'd been trying to avoid the appearance of plagiarism. Mmmm. Call me Irresponsible...
...hear. I took the medicine. I walked around with the bathrobe open in the a__, like in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. People were moaning and groaning all night, and I thought, Please, just let me get out of here, and I'll never be that stupid again...
...scandal, top executives can be seen running from headquarters mumbling that they are shocked to learn that there was gambling going on in the casino. But there's not much of that here. Enron and Andersen officials hardly deny the dubious deals, the 881 offshore tax havens or the stupid accounting tricks. That's partly because nobody can be sure that those dodges were inherently illegal. Many companies maintain similar arrangements, usually intended to avoid taxes--a benefit of interest to Enron...
...getting stupid penalties has really been a focus of our team this year,” Nowak said. “Hopefully we’ll be disciplined and stay...