Word: waywardly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Conspiracy buffs might imagine a family intrigue with George H.W. as the master puppeteer, pulling the strings on his former Administration members Brent Scowcroft, Larry Eagleburger, James Baker and Colin Powell to get the wayward son to restrain his war preparations and tough talk. But the reality has no strings. All those men have gone public with cautionary suggestions for the current President, but the former President did not talk to any of them or review their texts before they wrote and broadcast. Since they left the White House, the elder Bush has treated them as senior statesmen with...
...tale of articulate people with the gift of hurting the ones they care about, Full Frontal reminds viewers that there's room for stories about grownups--their wayward loves; their career blips; their relation to the media maw; their takes on race, pets, outsize vibrators and Brad Pitt--told with inventive wit in a dozen distinctive voices...
...Andersen tries to cover up corruption by rotating accountants from diocese to diocese, that Enron and K Mart will merge so Martha Stewart can design the prison uniforms. In each case it is the mighty who have fallen. The church scandal was as much about complicit Cardinals as about wayward priests; the FBI field agents did their job, but their careerist bosses stuffed all the clues into their desk drawers. As for the CEOs, they raid company coffers to pay off margin calls or build new mansions; awash in options, they manage the stock price instead of the company...
When it comes to cracking down on corporate crime, retribution seems to be the order of the day in Washington. Not long after Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill spoke of hanging wayward CEOs from the highest tree, President Bush announced the formation of a "financial-crimes SWAT team." Unfortunately, the proposals most likely to pass into law have more bark than bite. Here's a look at some solutions that are more than just tough talk...
...Andersen tries to cover up corruption by rotating accountants from diocese to diocese, that Enron and K Mart will merge so Martha Stewart can design the prison uniforms. In each case it is the mighty who have fallen. The church scandal was as much about complicit Cardinals as about wayward priests; the FBI field agents did their job, but their careerist bosses stuffed all the clues into their desk drawers. As for the CEOs, they raid company coffers to pay off margin calls or build new mansions; awash in options, they manage the stock price instead of the company...