Word: cleanly
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None of this makes the SEC happy. The agency has launched a drive to clean up what it calls creative accounting--offenses like excessive restructuring charges, inflated one-time "acquisition charges," and most important, manipulation of revenues to produce a predictable stream of profits or mask a bad quarter. "Think about a bottle of fine wine," says SEC chairman Arthur Levitt. "You wouldn't pop the cork on that bottle before it was ready. But some companies are doing this--recognizing revenues before a sale is complete, before the product is delivered, or at a time when the customer still...
...Conde Nast magazine empire brought in Golin to edit the archrival young-men's magazine Details. So it was all the more stunning when last Monday, less than a year into the hot editor's tenure, Conde Nast president Steve Florio told a hastily convened Details staff to clean out their desks by Friday, confounding staff members who believed they had over a year more to raise circulation from around 540,000 to the estimated 700,000 to 800,000 that Details needed to be viable. Says just hired editor Kendall Hamilton: "It was a smack in the head with...
...colonoscopy is not innocuous. It can be complicated by severe intestinal bleeding, rupture of the bowel and, in rare instances, death. Colonoscopes are difficult to clean, and transmission of infection from one individual to another is well documented. Society as a whole suffers not only from the huge financial burden of an extensive screening program but also from an ever increasing obsession with health, which, paradoxically, decreases our sense of wellness. KENNETH G. MARSHALL, M.D. Stratford...
...only leftist guerrillas and right-wing paramilitaries but the armed forces themselves and even the civilian leadership: Pastrana's predecessor, President Ernesto Samper, for example, has been accused of taking some $6 million in campaign contributions from drug barons. "There's general agreement that President Pastrana is pretty clean," says McGirk. "But it's hard to know how deep the corruption in the military goes. It's definitely there, because it's plain to see that the FARC sometimes has access to intelligence about raids by the military before they occur...
Fanning's software, released last August, included the features that made Napster a millennial college trend: live chat and MP3 indexing combined with fast, clean file sharing that bypasses your computer's sluggish send-mail program. It wasn't revolutionary so much as ingenious, linking existing concepts rather than breaking new programming ground. The day Fanning put the software online via a server at his uncle's office, he knew he had a huge hit: "As soon as we were up we were getting blasted with traffic." The company claims its user base growth rate has been between...