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REVENUE RECOGNITION The SEC says its No. 1 line of inquiry is into the ways that companies book their sales. The most glaring example of revenue fraud occurred at Sunbeam five years ago. (The company's infamous former CEO, "Chainsaw" Al Dunlap, just last month settled a shareholder suit stemming from his stint at the small-appliance maker.) Sunbeam recorded the sale of gas grills and other goods well before they left the warehouse. Many of the items never did get shipped. By offering retailers deep discounts to place orders months before they normally would and by booking those sales...
...safer? The weapons have been linked to more than a dozen deaths and outlawed in seven states. Amnesty International has labeled them "tools of torture" and called for a worldwide ban. In one notoriously brutal incident, New York City cops zapped a teenager several dozen times. The teen filed suit and won a $600,000 settlement...
Although the class action suit does not currently name Winokur, Karam said the firm is continuing to investigate...
...suit initiated by her family this week raises questions about privacy rights and universities’ responsibility to report mental health concerns to parents...
...Cheney wasn't budging before the suit was announced and he's not budging now. "The fact is, Enron didn't get any special deals," Cheney told ABC's "This Week." "Enron has been treated appropriately by this administration...