Word: unsound
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...president of Yale Friends of Israel Emily Scharfman, a Yale sophomore, said the divestment campaign is illegitimate and unsound...
...letter laid out what many executives knew but no one had the courage to say. Watkins homed in on two sets of transactions called Condor and Raptor (Enron had a penchant for names inspired by Jurassic Park and Star Wars) and argued that the accounting treatment was unsound, if not dishonest. Enron had booked huge profits from these entities while its stock price soared in 2000, despite the fact that neither Condor nor Raptor had any hard assets. But now that Enron's price was dropping, the company had to note these devaluations or pour more money into the companies...
...letter laid out what many executives knew but no one had the courage to say. Watkins homed in on two sets of transactions called Condor and Raptor (Enron had a penchant for names inspired by Jurassic Park and Star Wars) and argued that the accounting treatment was unsound, if not dishonest. Enron had booked huge profits from these entities while its stock price soared in 2000, despite the fact that neither Condor nor Raptor had any hard assets. But now that Enron's price was dropping, the company had to note these devaluations or pour more money into the companies...
...What are the ends of more "productive" corn and "cooler" tobacco? Are the means we're implementing the most effective ones? And, lest we forget, is the biotechnological innovation a good technology, or is it insufficient? Not only are GM organisms ethically and environmentally questionable, they're also technologically unsound. The only question that can really be conclusively answered when it comes to GM organisms is whether we should use them. Unequivocally, the answer is no. There are too many uncertainties involved...
...Massachusetts, had been described as a logistical nightmare by multiple independent researchers from institutes including Brandeis University and the Harvard School of Public Health. But even this particular proposal has been voted down, we hope that the state realizes that the opposition was in response to its economically unsound details rather than to the spirit of the bill. Massachusetts should now invest in a research initiative that would create another universal health care plan--something desperately needed in a state with too many uninsured residents--to be endorsed and put into effect by the next election...