Word: complex
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...response: a thinly veiled attempt to conceal a "glad-it's-you-and-not-me" smirk accompanied by a fumbling effort to express condolences. Cue that newfound Quad pride again. I didn't want this River-pity--since when do fireplaces and wood paneling give someone such a superiority complex...
MicroStrategy's reversal stems from a practice endemic in dotcom-land--overstating revenues. In the Internet twilight zone, where profits rarely exist, evaluating complex revenue streams can turn more on esoteric judgments than on accounting canon. The right outcome can add billions to a company's stock-market value. "It's a dangerous and uncertain game," says Howard Schilit, president of the Center for Financial Research and Analysis, a forensic accounting firm that issued two early warnings on MicroStrategy. "You know your stock could be dead meat if results are a couple of cents short, so you may sit down...
That's part of what got MicroStrategy into hot water. In one case, the firm booked the full value of a complex $50 million software-and-service sale even though the money would be collected over a multi-year period. Result after the restatement: the company's 1999 sales were revised downward from $205 million to about $150 million. Earnings vaporized...
...Digga--a.k.a. Rashia Fisher--lives in a rundown apartment complex. The security is spotty (you enter through an unlocked back door) and graffiti line the hallways. Rah herself, who is tall (5 ft. 7 in.) and striking, isn't dressed for ghetto fabulousness just this moment. In fact, she isn't dressed for much of anything. She isn't wearing makeup, and there's a blemish the size of a cigarette burn on her right cheek. Her pajama-clad daughter Sativa, 3, stands behind her, peeking between her mother's legs. They look as if they just...
...report concludes that the federal government does too little to pressure other countries into stemming the supply side, while U.S. law enforcement isn't doing its part to discourage the domestic market. Specifically, it asserts that U.S. attorneys don't want to bother pursuing these complex international cases and that federal laws don't punish traffickers strongly enough to discourage the practice. The report was assembled by State Department analyst Amy Richard as a special research project commissioned by the CIA. It found that some 50,000 female slaves are funneled into the U.S. annually, with a recent increase...