Word: auditors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials offered to settle out of court, but Bluhdorn, calling the allegations "totally unwarranted and outrageous," vowed to do battle before a judge. More than honor is at stake. If the SEC prevails, it could order G & W to hire an outside auditor to fully investigate the company's affairs, recruit a more independent board of directors and adopt new management procedures...
...Zamboanga City, a building contractor complains that the illicit kickbacks he is forced to pay to obtain government contracts have jumped to 20%. Nowadays, he adds, even "someone from the Government Auditor's Department [supposedly an anticorruption watchdog agency] comes along and demands his own payoff to keep quiet...
...turneth the labor of man to ashes, we thank thee for the multitude of thy forms which thou has set before us and for the infinite confusion of thy commandments which multiplieth the fortunes of lawyer and accountant alike ... Grant that this sacrifice not be found insufficient unto thy auditor...
...Scientology?-- determine accurately the invariable instrumental means." One of the instruments used to measure people's "honest and potential character" is an E-meter. The E-meter console sends 1.5 volts of electricity through two wires to two tin cans held in the hands of the student. The auditor sits facing the student and the dials of the console, and asks the student to consider certain questions. The student's reaction to these questions register on the dial of the E-meter and allow "a trained counselor to determine if a person feels bad in a certain area," Velona said...
...Velona, measures the changes of resistance" within a person's body and the person's response to certain concepts or thoughts. "Everything has certain resistance," Velona said, standing over the meter. "All recollections have a molecular mass" which are registered on the E-meter and interpreted by the trained auditor. Velona said that the auditor, however, does not evaluate a person's response but "encourages a person to come to his own realizations...