Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...page indictment portrayed a giant Japanese bank that was proudly confident of its ability to deceive U.S. authorities. This arrogance shone through a series of letters that Iguchi wrote to his superiors in July after confessing his wrongdoing. In one such letter on July 24, Iguchi said there was "zero possibility" that Federal Reserve inspectors would find him out if the bank were to buy back some of the Treasury securities that he had illicitly sold to conceal his losses. The same hubris permeated skull sessions that allegedly took place when Iguchi met with a Daiwa managing director from Osaka...
...whole institution and community make certain on the one hand, the people who choose to stay can continue to be active and productive...and at the same time ensure a flow of younger people into the system?" Rudenstine said. "It's pretty much a zero-sum game in appointments...
...help of timber lobbyists. According to the Western States Center, a campaign-finance research enterprise, Senator Conrad Burns of Montana got more than a fourth of his campaign funding last year from such sources, an unusually high percentage. The League of Conservation voters gave him a score of zero for his votes in the last Congress...
...exempt from it. "The Chairman thinks ideologically," says a human-rights worker who, revealingly, does not want to be named. "He is focusing on the basic principle, namely Palestinian independence. He's not interested in day-to-day problems, in infrastructure where we are starting from below zero. The few changes for the better have been trivial, cheap cosmetics. Paving a few roads, some improvement in education and public health--that's it." More trenchant complaints focus on corruption and nepotism in the Authority, the intimidating presence of several Palestinian security services and the lack of legal recourse...
Computers. Name: Global Information Solutions. Revenues: $8 billion. Profits: below zero. Chief executive: Lars Nyberg. Employees: 43,000 initially, but 8,500 will be laid off as the company stops making personal computers...