...Order Code RS21253 Updated August 29, 2002 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web WorldCom: The Accounting Scandal Bob Lyke Specialist in Social Legislation Domestic Social Policy Division Mark Jickling Specialist in Public Finance Government and Finance Division Summary On June 25, 2002, WorldCom, the Nation’s second largest long distance telecommunications company, announced that it had overstated earnings in 2001 and the first quarter of 2002 by more than $3.8 billion. The announcement stunned financial analysts and, coming on top of accounting problems at other corporations, had a noticeable effect on the financial markets. The accounting maneuver responsible for the overstatement – classifying payments for using other companies’ communications networks as capital expenditures – was characterized by the press as scandalous, and it was immediately asked why Arthur Andersen, the company’s outside auditor at the time, had not detected it. WorldCom filed for bankruptcy protection on July 21st. On August 8th, the company announced that it had also manipulated its reserve accounts in recent years, affecting an additional $3.8 billion. Response in Washington was swift. On June 26th, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged the company with massive accounting fraud and quickly obtained court order barring the company from destroying financial records, limiting its payments to past and current executives, and requiring an independent monitor...
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...------------------------------------------------- First use Hello, with that spelling, was used in publications as early as 1833. These include an 1833 American book called The Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee,[2] which was reprinted that same year in The London Literary Gazette.[3] The word was extensively used in literature by the 1860s.[4] ------------------------------------------------- Etymology According to the Oxford English Dictionary, hello is an alteration of hallo, hollo,[5] which came from Old High German "halâ, holâ, emphatic imperative of halôn, holôn to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman."[6] It also connects the development of hello to the influence of an earlier form, holla, whose origin is in the French holà (roughly, 'whoa there!', from French là 'there').[7] As in addition to hello,halloo,[8] hallo, hollo, hullo and (rarely) hillo also exist as variants or related words, the word can be spelt using any of all five vowels.[citation needed] Telephone The use of hello as a telephone greeting has been credited to Thomas Edison; according to one source, he expressed his surprise with a misheard Hullo.[9] Alexander Graham Bell initially used Ahoy(as used on ships) as a telephone greeting.[10][11] However, in 1877, Edison wrote to T.B.A. David,...
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...Hello From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Hello (disambiguation). "Hallo" redirects here. For other uses, see Hallo (disambiguation). [pic] Hello is a salutation or greeting in the English language. It is attested in writing as early as the 1830s. |Contents | |[hide] | |1 First use | |2 Etymology | |2.1 Telephone | |2.2 Hullo | |2.3 Hallo | |2.4 Cognates | |3 "Hello, World" computer program | |4 The Apple DOS HELLO program | |5 Perception of "Hello" in other nations | |6 See also | |7 References | |8 External links | First use Hello, with that spelling, was used in publications as early as 1833. These include an 1833 American book called The Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of...
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...INTRO Imagine this...you just gave a stellar presentation at your company’s monthly meeting. You were nervous, but you don’t think anyone really noticed...so you confidently head back to your seat at the conference table, Patting yourself on the back, and as you go to sit down the chair rolls from right underneath you and you PLOP..right on the floor..and it that wasn’t enough.... as you fell, you kind of let out this yell of several obscenities! Something like a Oh Shhh...OH Fffffff...something like that! You look up from the floor.. and your Boss is there..your Boss’s Boss is there, and that person you've been trying to Holla at for months from Accounting...There’s always someone from accounting your trying Holla out..Anyway...There you are ON the Floor...time has actually stood still....Well What do you do? Do you get up and run crying out the room? Do you get up quickly and sit in the chair and try to pretend nothing happened....Or do you...take a moment..then lift your hands up and say...THank you..I do all my Stunts.....Well according to an article written in Psychology Today by sociologist Erving Goffman...”It’s not the embarrassing moment that makes or brakes us...IT’s the recovery...It’s how we recover” People will remember our reaction, more than they will remember the actually embarrassing moment! Now lets face it..Everyone has had a moment when they wish they could just disappear right then and there. Unfortunately, it is not that easy!But once we learn how to...
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...yo, I heard you were applying at some colleges and I just thot I would tell u all about the resources at my skool. The best part prob is the fact that I can do my school work at my leisure this wud b gr8 4 U bc u hav kids. When I applied they wer so kewl and ez to deal with unlik the crap your dealin w/ @ the community colleg. They took care of everyth w/ ease. Now that Im in skool and learnin I thot id share all the thing I think make UOP ezer to graduate. For starters the library is filled with unlim resourc’s that make research a piece of cake. Since ur horrbl in math, Phoenix maks it ezer to undrstnd, evryth is hands on step by step, tutorials to mak sur u dont fail. Community College doesn’t offer that! Plus we can be study buddys. Holla Keathen Part 2: Dear Fellow Classmates; I am writing because I feel we deserve to know the importance of all the resources we have at the University of Phoenix. There are so many, we should capitalize on them and make our school life easier, with a much more enjoyable graduation experience. Every page you click on, there are resources- if you look carefully. Sometimes we can become overwhelmed with all the links to click we get lost and don’t know where to look. Tutorials can make the difference between knowing where to look and for what. Every Resource could not be described within 150 words, and all the resources couldn’t be described even if everyone in the classroom chose a resource. So with this in mind, we should all be investigating...
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...The Many Faces of Start-Up Financing All entrepreneurs face a similar challenge in the infant stage of their new venture: raising capital. While successful companies in their adolescent years can display steady cash flows and solid customer bases to potential investors, companies in their initial stages often cannot. This poses the challenge of obtaining capital sources from entities that may or may not have many reasons to believe in a new company’s ability to perform. However, despite the extensive challenges, there are multiple potential sources of capital that entrepreneurs can strive to obtain. Whether relying on smaller players like friends and family or crowd funding, or reaching out to larger, institutional investors such as angel investor networks or venture capital firms, business owners do have options when it comes to finding the capital they need to get their business off the ground. However, some routes make more sense than others depending on the specific company’s situation and objectives. Typically, a new business begins with something very simple: an idea. Sometime the individual spends years developing and tweaking the idea, and other times it simply comes to them in an instant. However it comes, once it does the entrepreneur needs to begin turning that idea into a more tangible concept. This almost always requires capital, whether for manufacturing a product, developing software, or hiring outside consultants to help develop the idea. There are many ways...
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...“Clocking cultures,” written by Carol Ezzell, starts out with a very interesting statement. She states that in some cultures, it is a usual occurrence to show up an hour late and nobody “bats an eyelash” (207). However, in places such as New York City, it is considered very rude. After a direct example that is very modern, Ezzell presents information that has been studied by “social scientists” (207) that reflect different paces of life in different countries. Also, being late in some cultures is more acceptable for “a more powerful person” (207). Another truth that Ezzell states is that the rules for being late or keeping someone waiting may not be “explicit” (207), but they “exist in the air”(207). As the piece advances, the writing becomes more analytical. In the fourth paragraph, Ezzell describes how different perceptions can lead to misunderstandings. The type of writing that Ezzell is portraying is scientific, which I later found interesting when I saw that she has been a science writer since the early 1990’s and works as a writer and an editor at Scientific American, which is a prominent science magazine. In the fifth paragraph, Ezzell analyzes the meaning behind cultures’ traditions. For example, by studying time, you can get “answers on what cultures value and believe in”(207). I found the second portion of the fifth paragraph very interesting. Ezzell’s research ranks the five fastest and slowest countries and goes into detail about these countries. She even includes...
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...Transfer pricing By John C. Hollas Illustration: Susanna Denti How to apply the appropriate transfer pricing methods to intercompany financial transactions In Canada, taxpayers are seeing an increased scrutiny of and more audit focus on intercompany financing transactions by the international tax auditors from the Canada Revenue Agency. The related party financial transaction being most commonly audited by the CRA are intercompany loans, factoring of trade receivables and provision of financial guarantees. This environment of rising transfer pricing controversy risk with respect to intercompany financial transactions conflicts directly with the multinational corporation's (MNC) increasing need to finance its foreign operations through intercompany, crossborder financial transactions. The transfer pricing risks and implications remain very significant both from a tax compliance standpoint and from a controversy risk management perspective. Today, MNCs need to mitigate the risk of significant transfer pricing adjustments by local and foreign tax authorities. While our focus is limited to the Canadian tax environment, it is critical to recognize that in all international related party transactions, with financial transactions being no exception, the transfer pricing issues include the other tax jurisdictions of the foreign related parties that are involved in the intercompany transaction. As such the transfer pricing legislation in those foreign tax jurisdictions must...
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...Hey hi hello First use Hello, with that spelling, was used in publications as early as 1833. These include an 1833 American book called The Sketches and Eccentricities of Col. David Crockett, of West Tennessee,[2] which was reprinted that same year in The London Literary Gazette.[3] The word was extensively used in literature by the 1860s.[4] Etymology According to the Oxford English Dictionary, hello is an alteration of hallo, hollo,[5] which came from Old High German "halâ, holâ, emphatic imperative of halôn, holôn to fetch, used especially in hailing a ferryman."[6] It also connects the development of hello to the influence of an earlier form, holla, whose origin is in the French holà (roughly, 'whoa there!', from French là 'there').[7] As in addition to hello, halloo,[8] hallo, hollo, hullo and (rarely) hillo also exist as variants or related words, the word can be spelt using any of all five vowels.[citation needed] Telephone The use of hello as a telephone greeting has been credited to Thomas Edison; according to one source, he expressed his surprise with a misheard Hullo.[9] Alexander Graham Bell initially used Ahoy (as used on ships) as a telephone greeting.[10][11] However, in 1877, Edison wrote to T.B.A. David, the president of the Central District and Printing Telegraph Company of Pittsburgh: Friend David, I do not think we shall need a call bell as Hello! can be heard 10 to 20 feet away. What you think? Edison - P.S. first cost of sender & receiver to...
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...weeks I get money I give a fuck about all you Blud, I got fam I don't talk to No Hello's, we just walk through Fake niggas make me paranoid Frenemies moving fucked up You know I ride if I love ya' I'll shoot a friend for a brother I'll shoot my dad for my mama It sounds mad, but it's so true Real Recognize Real and I don't know you He thinks he's bad cause he's gold tooth Them man are shook of my mad crew My niggas still, like statues Said she wants to marry Jewan And die in designer Babe I don't trust but I like ya' He don't bang guns He's a liar, I've always been a rider Cause I'm a real deal signer A yo, I really need a lady I want a night with Paigey Cakey I like your style girl, you're wavey Ay bro, I really wanna holla that But lightskin girls don't follow back I need views like Hollowman I'm kick scaring my bud, bud Look around bro, it's just us We been a nigga since the younger Fam I don't trust, but I have one Go suck your dad, like your mum done I know these bitches love Sosa But how the fuck are they forgetting Mo? You know I'm sticking to the realest code I could'a caught a body bout' a week ago Fuck with us...
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...into a diatribe.) And, her unintentional (hmmmmm) mistakes in spelling and capitalization of Nonproper Nouns within the text also serve a subtle purpose: they remind John subtly that Abigail is uneducated, that she resides in a colony that fights for independence and liberty, yet doesn’t value it’s women. (GUILT TRIP him, Abigail!) Political commentary segways(SP) into more personal news from home in the third through fifth paragraph – concentrating on the bad news: small pox and ravaged homes. Adam’s anaphoric use of “I” at the beginning of her statements emphasize to her husband John that YES, she has been busy fighting her own battles outside Boston – and it hasn’t been pretty. This serves as a sort of counterargument, should John holla back with his “girl, I’m fighting the war in Congress; you got it easy” plea. Her sentences become long and meandering, almost poetic with their inclusion of imagery details, as her tone softens in the sixth paragraph: “We knew not whether we could plant or so” to “…sit under our own vine and eat the good of the land.” It’s as if she knows she has to slow down, sooth and soften herself so that John is reminded of what he really wants to come back to. (Yes, sex is her weapon – though she wants to be more than a “vassal” of his.) But, ultimately, this firecracker isn’t burned out yet. She concludes with two final paragraphs full of complex “if…then,” “Tho …But” and “by the way” statements that show that if her hand is forced, she (and...
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...f Young Metro don't trust you, I'm gon' shoot you Yeah Halloween Taliban, Taliban Yeah, jumpman, jumpman, jumpman, them boys up to something They just spent like two or three weeks out the country Them boys up to something they just not just bluffing You don't have to call I hit my dance like Usher I just found my tempo like I'm DJ Mustard I hit the Ginobili with my left hand up like Lobster and Celine for all my babies that I miss Chicken finger, French fries for them hoes that wanna diss Jumpman, jumpman, jumpman, them boys up to something Uh-uh, uh, I think I need some Robitussin Way too many questions you must think I trust you You searching for answers I do not know nothing I see 'em tweaking they know something's coming Jumpman, jumpman, jumpman, them boys up to something Jumpman, jumpman, jumpman, fuck was you expecting? Chi-town chi-town Michael Jordan just said text me Jumpman, jumpman, jumpman Jumpman, jumpman, jumpman I just seen the jet take off they up to something Them boys just not bluffing them boys just not bluffing Jumpman, jumpman, jumpman, them boys up to something She was tryna join the team I told her, "Wait." Chicken wings and fries we don't go on dates Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, Nobu, I just throwed a private dinner in LA Trapping is a hobby, that's the way for me Money coming fast, they never get to sleep I, I just had to buy another safe Bentley Spurs and Phantoms Jordan Fadeaway Yeah Jumpman, jumpman...
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...To dictate a separate set of rules for a nursing mother and child is discriminatory (McKinney 1). When a nursing mother is breast feeding in public there are two ways she can do this, the first way, and the one that should be accepted, is her infant under a nursing cover, with her breasts covered as well; second option which is why I think many people have issues with a mother feeding in public, is when a mother does not use a cover and simply puts her shirt down and lets her breast hang out while her infant is eating, that is understandable why a person could feel uncomfortable. However, if a mother covers herself while the infant is feeding there should be no issue with her doing what is only natural and the best option for her infant. Holla- Bhar stated in “investing breastfeeding “More than 800,000 under five deaths a year could be prevented globally by achieving favorable breastfeeding practices, recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF; breastfeeding within the first hour after the birth; exclusive breastfeeding for six months; and continued breastfeeding for two years or more” (2). Not only is breast-feeding, beneficial health wise for a child, it is very beneficial to the mother as well, and can help prevent many diseases that women can be victim of. With these staggering studies showing how important it is for a mother to breastfeed her infant, it is sad that people would want to put limitations on the mother and where she can feed her hungry child...
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...Looking side to side Reina is lost for words. She puts the lamp in her bag and continues to shop in the bodega. Sometime later, Reina is home in her room just staring at the lamp. She spins and twirls it to try to get the genie to come out and nothing happens. She gives up and decides to wait until tomorrow. It’s morning time and the first thing Reina does is grab the lamp, with one touch the genie is up and running again. “Goooooood mornin’ it’s such a great day to grant some wishes.” Reina asks, “How come you wouldn’t show up last night? I tried everything.” Genie replies, “Well I need to get my beauty sleep, I only “work” during the day if you try to holla at me after 11:30 pm that’s a no can do.” Reina shakes her head. She rewinds a little and thinks of what genie said about today being a great day to grant wishes. So she asks genie “What wishes do you grant?” Genie says, “Well if you ask me I can grant you anything, I even have the ability to bring people back to...
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