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Clearly, one of the big lessons from Andersen's fall is that it may take years to create a reputation of quality and integrity but that hard-earned reputation can be lost very quickly if there is a real or perceived breach of trust.
However, as it stands, my hard-earned cash is simply being handed directly over to retired people, many of whom are much better off than I am--and I'm never going to see dollar one of a payout from this so-called "investment."
For example, the membership soundly rejected the Institute's efforts to further stretch the CPA brand name and allow others to benefit from our profession's hard-earned reputation through the so-called "XYZ initiative."
The kinds of things Johnson reveled in--locker-room talk and stiff belts of whiskey, the "muted grays" of the Senate's well-turned compromises, even his own hard-earned influence and wealth--were the kinds of things against which the Harvard-educated Kennedy defined his very identity.
Dole's speech tried to put over, one more time, the fiction that the federal government takes away your hard-earned money and spends most of it on things that only social workers want.