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Trying to Close a Can of Worms

Congress backs Bush on Iraqting to see where the investigators and prosecutors will draw the line in their interrogations of corporate America.

The temptation is to use certain figures as examples to the rest. Take the case of Arthur Andersen, the hapless accounting firm that had the misfortune to be the auditor for Enron, the disgraced Houston-based energy business.

The government rushed to indict the entir the president to work closely with the UN before going it alone against Iraq.

“Completely bypassing the UN would set a dangerous precedent that would undoubtedly be used bfirm loses its licence and the big five becomes the big four.

Yet Andersen is not the only one of the accounting firms to have been involved in audits of scandal-struck companies. PricewaterhouseCoopers was responsible for auditing Tyco, where senior executives have been accused of “looting” the conglomerate for their own gain. But the mood among prosecutors here is very different.

The offices of the Manhattan district attorney are considering criminal charges against a number of the auditors but not against the firm itself. There is clearly no political appetite to reduce the big four to the big three, with the accompanying outcries from people losing jobs and from investors losing confidence in the system altogether.

But it may be difficult to close this Pandora’s box. The more that is uncovered of corporate America and particularly Wall Street’s ways of doing business during the 1990s, the more rife the corruption and sheer recklessness becomes apparent.

When everyone was getting rich, clearly no one cared. Now that Wall Street is moving toward its third consecutive year of losses and the Dow Jones index is hitting five-year lows things are different.

At Citigroup, the focus has been on a single analyst, Jack Grubman, who has been vilified for helping to build the stock market bubble with his over-enthusiastic backing of telecoms companies.

As an analyst, his advice to investors was supposed to be independent. But he stands accused of ramping stocks that were in reality in a precarious position in order to persuade those companies to give the group their investment banking business.

Mr Grubman, who had earned $20m (£12.8m) a year, left the bank in August with a $32m payoff. Citigroup would clearly like that to be the end of the matter. But it isn’t. Mr Grubman, despite his handsome payoff doesn’t like the idea that he is the focus of attention. His lawyer this week promised that would be happy to show how “Jack was part of a bigger problem”.

He hardly needs to. Some of the internal emails that have been published by the New York state attorney-general, Eliot Spitzer, in a separate lawsuit make it clear that Mr Grubman did not act alone. Rather that, as he maintains, he was operating within the rules of the prevailing culture.

The culture of ramping that has emerged from the fabric of Wall Street is now acknowledged to have played a significant role in the destructive boom and bust that is now coming back to haunt the banks. In the telecoms sector for instance, the banks used loans to companies as “loss leaders” – a means of securing other investment banking business and fees.

That helped to increase the capital investment in networks way beyond the actual levels of demand – according to estimates, more than 95% of the broadband capacity in the ground is unused. This is not the fault of one man, or even one company, but the result of the extraordinary times that encouraged so many to overstep the line.

Many of the current conflicts are put down to the deregulation of the banking sector, which allowed US financial institutions to forge huge conglomerates during the 1990s offering everything from credit to fund management, analysis and investment banking.

The result of current events may be a sharp reversal. Citigroup has offered to split research from investment banking entirely. To adopt a phrase commonly used in the US, investigators and regulators also clearly feel the need to move towards “closure” in the scandals with enough of the system still standing to allow the economy to get back on its feet.

How far can the investigators continue to unearth wrongdoing on Wall Street in the name of the small investor? As long as scandal is in the headlines, the small investor is not benefiting in any material way as share prices continue to tumble.

The “perp walks” – when criminals are displayed in handcuffs for the camera – of white collar criminals are intended to restore some confidence. But how many fresh scandals can anyone stomach?

That need for some form of closure was evidenced when a week ago, many of the chief prosecutors in the Wall Street scandals came together to agree to pool their interests and attempt to achieve some form of global settlement instead of the death by a thousand cuts.

The agreement was between the New York Stock Exchange, Mr Spitzer’s office, the securities and exchange commission, the National Association of Securities Dealers and others.

Keeping a lid on the scandals might not be entirely in their own hands, however. They cannot control Congress. And the prosecutions are now being used as the basis for a swelling number of lawsuits from individual investors that could be a dark cloud over Wall Street for a long time to come and cause more companies to fall than the few examples that officials would like.

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Obama Trying Scholarship to Get American Mothers to Study

In an effort to lift single American mothers out of the lower income class and give them hope for a brighter future, Obama has implemented a tax-free $10,000 scholarship for them to attend college or university. This program is beneficial to all of those single mothers who have struggled for years to make ends meet, relying on various food programs as well as menial jobs just to put food on the table and pay the rent.

Some single mothers have carried the burden of financial hardship for many years struggling with food, rent, other bills, clothing and other bare necessities for both herself and her children. More often than not there has not been a father around while these children are growing up nor has the financial support been there. Many have attempted to complete or further their education prior to the implementation of Obama’s Scholarship for Mothers Program and have faced enormous bills arising from the costs of tuition and books and have had to give up their dreams of a university degree.

Those who are accepted into this scholarship plan have the option of taking their courses in an actual school setting or from the convenience of their own home. This is wonderful news for those who do not have the means or modes of transportation to get them to the school that they wish to attend and an excellent program for single American mothers who have newborns and wish to further their education so that they will be able to get those higher paying jobs once their children are a little older.

Did you know you can get a $10,000 scholarship for Moms just for registering? Apply right now for free: Scholarships for Moms.

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Financial Help for Working Mothers Trying to Get Back Into School

Working mothers are the pride of every family, who are able to cook, clean, maintain house and a career all at the same time. Living a working mothers life is no joke and they have no time to waste at all considering their busy schedules. Keeping this is mind, college grants for working mothers have been designed in such a way that it meets the requirements of the working mothers and allows them to go forward in their educational life which will help them to climb the career ladder swiftly.

The grants for the working mothers come in from different sources. We have the eLearners whose main motive is to spread the need of education amongst the mothers by providing various grants and scholarships. ‘Project Working Mom: Putting Education to Work’ is an outstanding initiative from eLearners which profusely helps the working mothers to get their share of education which they missed during their years of motherhood. The project is highly committed and has announced to provide 285 full-tuition scholarships for the mothers, in total an amount of $5 million towards these grants for the year 2010. Ford Opportunity Program is also another dedicated agency pouring scholarship amount worth $10,000 to three mothers studying at the Oregon College. W.I.S.P. Change Your World Scholarship, Sunshine Lady Foundation Scholarship Program and The R.O.S.E. Scholarship are a different category of scholarship programs which are totally providing all the necessary support to those working mothers who have been previously assaulted by their spouses and these scholarships would like to care for these special women who need financial aid to stand up in their lives.

Federal grants and Obama’s ‘Moms return to school’ program are very much devoted to the betterment of the working mothers. The federal government has become extremely open and to apply for a federal grant is very much free and does not include much hassles. Pell grants are the most simplest of the federal grants and a working mother could be entitled to $5500 if she qualifies for the same. The government will be providing 250 thousand women with federal grants to explore the wonderful treasure which lies hidden in education. MRSGG program is also a great initiation to see the mothers studying again at colleges and universities. Working mothers need not worry about the lack of time to study at campus as most of these programs are so structured that they have the online mode of lessons and classes which really helps the working mothers in a significant way.

Working mothers need a push to progress further in their lives and without proper education, they cannot move ahead in their career path. College grants for working mothers have been introduced with the only motive of bestowing better living conditions and in turn a sound future to the working mothers.

Many places offer scholarships just for being in a specific group. Take just a few minutes to get a scholarship just for being a mother. That’s $10,000 that does not have to be paid back. Here it is, Scholarship for Mothers and it’s free.

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Trying To Find Grants For Nursing School In Ohio.?

I am in LPN school and haven’t received any grant. Don’t to how to pay for last Qt in April 2007

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Hi,
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Good luck

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