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...where you could hold the described meeting for $139,000, topped the bargain list, followed by Indianapolis, Ind., at $147,000. Most expensive were Honolulu at $265,000 and Los Angeles at $217,000. GetThere says automated meeting planning can save time and money, but the firm doesn't vouch for amenities in the cities. Says GetThere spokeswoman Noel Bilodeau: "I know nothing about Jacksonville...
...when Porsche chief executive Wendelin Wiedeking saw the tough new Sarbanes-Oxley Act that President Bush signed into law this summer on the heels of the Enron and WorldCom scandals, he had a fit. The new law, which seeks to safeguard against fraudulent accounting, requires CEOs and CFOs to vouch for the accuracy of their company's books under oath. That "makes no sense," Wiedeking said last month. A company spokesman explains that hundreds of employees are involved in finalizing Porsche's accounts and that under German law the management board is collectively responsible for them, not any individual. Wiedeking...
Terry's public defender had no difficulty finding character witness after character witness to vouch for her: colleagues, her boss's boss, fire fighters and forest volunteers, all uncowed by public anger, standing by a friend who they said had made an unthinkable mistake. The judge denied the government's request to lock her up without bail; if she manages to raise 10% of her $600,000 bond, she can await trial in a halfway house...
...bogus monk, he is interrogated at a nearby temple by its abbot, Phra Thai Thammarat, and Phra Khrusri Pattanakhun, chief of the monk police. He insists he's a real monk from Chaiyaphum. But when Phra Khrusri calls a few of Charoen's supposed temples, no one will vouch for him. Rather than turn him over to the two waiting policemen, the abbot decides Charoen should be disrobed and expelled for improper begging. The legal penalty is only $4.50 for the first offense. Repeat offenders can get a year in jail, but that's rare. The monks want...
...college-age Nebraskans did in 1998 after reading a school-newspaper ad urging students to "earn extra money." They called 402-474-PAYS, signed a seven-page consent form and popped a pill loaded with the active ingredient in Raid roach spray. Dow AgroSciences commissioned the trial to vouch for the safety of one of its top-selling bug killers, chlorpyrifos...