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...threshold required for the euro - and he wouldn't be able to balance the budget by 2006, as promised. If the Meisterbrief ever is abolished, analysts say, some new businesses may open in the short term. But their chances of survival are slim. "Many will be based on unsound foundations without the managerial knowledge taught in the master's courses," says Gerhard Bosch, vice president of the Institute for Labor and Technology in Gelsenkirchen. "A spate of bankruptcies will be the consequence." Bosch also fears that few of these new and probably under-capitalized handicraft businesses will invest in vocational...
...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...