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For Asia's hoteliers-seasoned innkeepers who have stared down many a crisis-this summer will be a write-off and SARS is the worst bottom-line bummer they can remember. It's worse, and much longer, than the slumps that followed 9/11, the Bali bombing, the Iraq war and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting the Bug off our Backs | 6/2/2003 | See Source »

For all the dial-up, the meeting proved relatively uneventful. Lay seemed composed but genuinely concerned and said he would have attorneys look into the questionable deals. Though Watkins counseled against it, Lay suggested--and eventually selected--Enron's law firm, Vinson & Elkins, to conduct the inquiry. Nevertheless, Watkins left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sherron Watkins: The Party Crasher | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

Nye would have done better to stay home on the range. He announced last month that Dallas-based TXU (as the company was renamed) would sell the U.K. business to German energy giant E.On for just $2.1 billion and book a write-off that might hit $4.2 billion. In a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Works: Innocents Abroad | 11/25/2002 | See Source »

While a few nonprofits that run aquatics camps use the boats for their activities, most simply resell them. Often the donation takes the form of a so-called bargain sale: the owner sells the boat to a charity at half its value or less. The difference in price is considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Yacht Giveaway | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

When public confidence in the company—and Enron’s stock prices—began to slip, Enron was forced to cut its ties with LJM and take a $1 billion write-off. ...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Winokur Called To Testify About Enron Activity | 1/14/2002 | See Source »

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