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...lift its ban on British beef. The French government has ignored the court's earlier ruling that the ban is illegal. BOTTOM LINES "If you saw something, you stopped it. Oh, a good audit was a beautiful thing." Al Bows, 88, retired Andersen senior partner, on accountancy when Arthur Andersen hired him in 1935 "It looks to me like spring, when the snow melts and you see the dog shit that's been there all winter." John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media, on the scandals rocking corporate America "Greed is not an issue of business, it's an issue...
...spurned requests from the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. to donate his work there. Instead, his work forms the foundation of the Fogg Art Museum and of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum’s Asian collections...
...DIED. ARTHUR MELIN, 77, entrepreneurial co-founder of Wham-O, the toy giant that brought baby boomers the Hula Hoop, the Frisbee and the SuperBall; of Alzheimer's disease; in Costa Mesa, Calif. After a friend showed Melin and his partner a rattan hoop popular in Australia, Wham-O introduced a plastic version in 1958. Mania over the Hula Hoop was ferocious but short lived; it cost Wham-O, which at one point made 20,000 a day, $10,000 in losses that year...
...Burns is something of a pioneer. An avid hiker who likes to spend time at her North Carolina cabin, she became the first female CFO of a major airline two years ago, after becoming the first woman partner in the Atlanta office of accounting firm Arthur Andersen. "Most airlines echo the military structure, where many of the executives used to come from," she says, "but Delta has evolved into an organization that you might say is more welcoming to a female style. We reach across the company and use a team approach. And we don't follow the chain...
...blow to sink in. a market crash doesn't always come in a day. It can sneak up, slow and surreal, and you can think you survived it only to find it has barely begun. Now each week brings a new shudder and crack-first Enron and Arthur Anderson, then WorldCom, Adelphia, Xerox and the trials of Martha Stewart. Most Americans-72% in the TIME/CNN poll-fear that they see not a few isolated cases but a pattern of deception by a large number of companies. In one survey, more than half of corporate chief financial officers said they...