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"My feeling was that it was ridiculous to train people for a profession you don't let them into," Hiatt argues. But she decided to go anyway, with the intention of working actively toward the goal of women's ordination. Hiatt, a canonical resident of Pennsylvania diocese, was the first...
Long regarded as an exacting and prestigious calling, the accounting profession has smarted in recent years under charges of sloppy or illegal practices that contributed to some of the biggest scandals in U.S. business history. As the world's largest accounting firm (annual revenues: $500 million), New York-based...
...kept adequate records. But in general Young concluded that Peat, Marwick complied with accounting principles laid down by the Financial Accounting Standards Board. "We did not find perfection," Young Managing Partner William S. Kanaga said in a letter to Peat, Marwick Senior Partner Walter E. Hanson. "But no professional auditor who is knowledgeable of the problems of auditing and reporting would expect to find perfection...
But a composite description of the average student on leave, compiled from interviews with House tutors, reveals that a frustrated junior, most likely one who declared interest in a profession--particularly medicine--in freshman year, is most prone to fleeing the campus before his term is up.
Both women attribute a good deal of their success to contacts made through volunteer organizations and civic committees. "Because of my past experience I had no problem presiding," says Hance. "Through volunteering, I had to learn discipline, work habits, and a broad knowledge of the community. As a volunteer you...