All Posts Tagged With: "compliance"
Punishing the Innocent: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Barbara Hunter is a freelance writer. She recently retired after more than 25 years in the field of information technology, primarily at high-technology companies and law firms. If any person or any group had set itself the task of creating a law whose purpose was to destroy the American free-enterprise system, it could not have [...]
1Mar2007 | Barbara R. Hunter | 5 comments | ContinuedWhat Happened to China?
Asked to pick from among the world’s nations the one with the best prospects for years ahead, an early fifteenth-century futurist would have bet on China. All the indicators pointed to it as destined to outpace every other civilization on the planet. Among the things the futurist might have noted was Chinese technology. In 1400 [...]
1Aug2002 | Harold B. Jones Jr. | 2 comments | ContinuedOr Else . . .
Russell Madden is a communications instructor at Mt. Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Extortion has always been a favorite activity of governmental agencies. Ordinarily, threatening someone with harm unless he accedes to another’s demands is rightfully a crime. Whether the perpetrator is a neighbor seeking to use your lawn mower or an organized-crime thug [...]
1Dec1997 | Russell Madden | 0 comments | Continued-
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