We've still a lot to do before the season starts.
Let's face it, Southern poverty is overwhelming, and usually that gets kind of papered over for the rest of us because of the charm of places like New Orleans. But it's pretty grim, really, and now we're being reminded of that.
Natural disasters always reveal the social order of things -- the social disorder really, and that's what we're seeing here. You start peeling away the layers with an event like this hurricane, and the ugliness comes up from beneath very quickly.
Obviously, there is no guarantee that you will not develop cancer even with a healthy active lifestyle but it does substantially reduce the risks.
If we had nothing else to do, the accounting investigations alone could keep us busy for the next five or 10 years. The size and magnitude are crushing,
There are studies which show the more excess weight a person carries, the greater the risk of some cancers, such as breast, kidney and colon to name a few,
People immediately love them because they think they are a lot cleverer than they really are.
While cash did not change hands, the companies that issued the stock received valuable benefits,
Under these circumstances, the securities laws entitle investors to full and fair disclosure, which they did not receive in these cases.
School means I have to do homework. That takes up my time when I should be riding my dirt bike.
Probably the poster child for us is the case that we brought against W.R. Grace and some of its senior folks, in which we charged that they had managed earnings by setting up, if you will, a cookie jar reserve,
The offshore oil is vitally important. We have to use the only resources that we have.
As fraudsters sow their seeds of corruption in the entertainment industry, the SEC, FTC, and NASAA are striking back by filing dozens of fraud cases against individuals and firms that prey on unsuspecting investors,
This action reflects the commission's close scrutiny of accounting practices in the technology industry to make certain that the financial disclosure of companies in this area reflect present reality,
A blunt reminder to people who are paid to tout stocks on the Internet: You must disclose the nature and amount of your compensation and it must be easily accessible, not buried somewhere on the Web site.
It's not just, 'You've violated the law, don't do it in the future,' ... We believe the order has teeth.
It's always a shock no matter what you may think of anyone in the neighborhood there's nothing compared to this.
They have to amend the way they do business, and we will have examiners to make them amend and adjust their practices, to put an end to lax oversight once and for all.
There's two reasons: One is geographical, when you're in the middle of the fastest-growing part of the country, near these big urban centers, the richest places always have the highest costs, partly because they're successful.
There's too much loose money. The world's kind of awash in capital right now.
If you got here other than by horse, or on foot, or on a bicycle, then shame, shame on you.