Word: trailingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Traditional auditing methods are powerless to stop sophisticated E.D.P. swindlers because accountants no longer can reconstruct a "paper trail" of records; a clever programmer can order the computer to erase all traces of his own incursion. Admits FBI Computer Expert James Barko: "Many cases are discovered completely by accident," like noticing suspicious high living by low-paid clerks. After raiding a New York bookie, police traced a $30,000-per-day betting account back to an $11,000-a-year teller at the Union Dime Savings Bank and discovered that he had made off with $1.5 million by the computerized...
...supplies a form poster that can be individualized with a description of the loved one (Keane recommends a minimum $50 reward). For $100 plus expenses he will devote himself exclusively to finding one pet, and with the Irregulars will scour a neighborhood as thoroughly as Mr. Holmes on the trail of Professor Moriarty...
Show Biz. This kind of conversion is often associated with emotionalism, but Graham's advice is: "Don't depend on feelings for your assurance of salvation." The night* he walked the sawdust trail, Graham remembers, others were weeping, and since he was not, he wondered whether his commitment was genuine. Despite the exuberance of some new converts, however, Graham writes that being born again does not mean that "we will never have any problems. This isn't true, but we do have Someone to help us face our problems. The Christian life...
Last month the officers of Crédit Suisse convened an extraordinary meeting to explain to 3,000 stunned stockholders how the debacle could have occurred. Newly elected Board Chairman Oswald Aeppli was unable to put a specific figure on the bank's losses. So tangled was the trail of the fraudulent investments, he said, that a 100-man Crédit Suisse investigating team has still not sorted out the mess. The investigation could take months longer...
These actions have triggered predictable protests. "A permit to hike!" snorted one angry Appalachian Mountain Clubber when told he needed to check with a Ranger before trying a favorite trail. "Next they'll tell me I need a license to breathe." But the action is essential. By 1979 the park service expects 302 million people to be visiting the National Parklands. Unless steps are taken now to preserve these wonderlands of nature, there may be a lot less of them for later visitors to enjoy...