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...forced liquidations." U.K. regulators have a similar fear, and they've responded by lowering the amount of assets insurers need to hold above their liabilities to policyholders - and crossing their fingers. CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY Making Scandals Add Up to Reform Faster than a plunging Enron share, tougher than a bear market, the U.S. Congress last week whisked through the biggest changes to business oversight in 60 years, creating harsh penalties for fraud and an independent board to regulate accounting. But the legislation is silent on one controversial accounting trick, treating stock options as expenses when companies do their taxes...
...threat of a nuclear war in South Asia was looming large (a threat that I like to believe does not exist anymore). She said that if she were to leave, and New Delhi were to be obliterated by a nuclear bomb, then she would never be able to bear the loss of all her friends, including the friendly trees and squirrels that she grew up with...
...this unsettled summer, with its bear market in stocks and bull market in terror warnings, every bit of bad news resonates tenfold. And while there hasn't been any real increase in the number of child abductions it certainly seems that way, with the images of Danielle Van Dam, Elizabeth Smart and Samantha Runnion on every TV screen and the nights filled with the sound of mothers weeping for their children because they...
...team has seen the person many times. "If we don't believe a person is ready, we don't do the test," says Molinuevo. "It is not that we are withholding information; we will do the test, but later, when the person is prepared. Obviously, we have to bear in mind the possibility of suicide." When a mutation is confirmed, Molinuevo delivers the news himself. "We decided not to have the other team members present so it wouldn't look like the person was facing a court or a tribunal. I tell them, without any adjectives, such as, 'Unfortunately...
...didn't have enough problems with a soft ad market and a sinking stock price, the Walt Disney Co. has revealed to shareholders that it may owe several hundred million dollars because of a silly old bear. In 1961 Disney licensed certain rights to the character of Winnie-the-Pooh from literary agent Stephen Slesinger, who had acquired U.S. merchandising rights from A.A. Milne, author of the books featuring Pooh and Christopher Robin. That contract made no mention of videotapes, computer games or DVDs--because such uses either didn't exist or weren't widespread when the deal was made...