As of October 24, 2005, Cendant Corporation announced its decision to split into four separate companies, citing a necessity to diversify in appealing to stockholders. These four categories include "Real Estate, Travel Distribution, Hospitality and Vehicle Rental Companies."[3] Supposedly, this implementation will take effect sometime in 2006.[4] ...

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Cendant, Cendant - Fraud, Cendant - Automobile Rental Brands owned by Cendant, Cendant - Splitting apart, Cendant - Hotel franchises owned by Cendant [5], Cendant - Real estate franchises owned by Cendant [6], Cendant - Travel services owned by Cendant

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Adventure is a genre of video game typified by exploration, puzzle-solving, interaction with game characters, and a focus on narrative rather than reflex-based challenges. The vast majority of adventure games are computer games, though console-based adventure games are not unheard of. Unlike many other game genres, the adventure genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based art forms, such as literature and film. Adventure games encompass a wide variety of literary genres, including fantasy, science ficti ...

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• Adventure game - History
• Adventure game - Colossal Cave Adventure
• Adventure game - Scott Adams
• Adventure game - Graphical progress
• Adventure game - Infocom
• Adventure game - Sierra
• Adventure game - LucasArts
• Adventure game - Myst
• Adventure game - Types of adventure games
• Adventure game - Puzzle adventure
• Adventure game - Action-adventure
• Adventure game - Text based
• Adventure game - Graphical adventure
• Adventure game - RPG-like
• Adventure game - Other
• Adventure game - Modern adventure games
• Adventure game - Common features
• Adventure game - Notable adventure games
• Adventure game - Series

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Accounting scandals, or corporate accounting scandals are political and business scandals which arise with the disclosure of misdeeds by trusted executives of large public corporations. Such misdeeds typically involve complex methods for misusing or misdirecting funds, overstating the value of corporate assets or underreporting the existence of liabilities, sometimes with the cooperation of officials ...

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• Accounting scandals - Scandals
• Accounting scandals - Big Five accounting auditors
• Accounting scandals - Accounting scandals by year first reported
• Accounting scandals - 2002
• Accounting scandals - Later scandals
• Accounting scandals - Outcomes

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Adventure game - Colossal Cave Adventure. In the early 1970s, programmer, caver, and role-player William Crowther developed a program called Colossal Cave Adventure. An employee at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BB&N), a Boston company involved with ARPANET router's, Crowther used BBN's PDP-10 to create the game. The game used a text interface to create an interactive adventure through a spectacular underground cave system. Crowther's work was later modified and expanded by programmer Don Woods, and Colossal Cave Adventure became wildly popular among early computer enthusiasts, spreading across ...

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Adventure game, Adventure game - History, Adventure game - Colossal Cave Adventure, Adventure game - Scott Adams, Adventure game - Graphical progress, Adventure game - Infocom, Adventure game - Sierra, Adventure game - LucasArts, Adventure game - Myst, Adventure game - Types of adventure games, Adventure game - Puzzle adventure, Adventure game - Action-adventure, Adventure game - Text based, Adventure game - Graphical adventure, Adventure game - RPG-like, Adventure game - Other, Adventure game - Modern adventure games, Adventure game - Common features, Adventure game - Notable adventure games, Adventure game - Series

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Accounting scandals - Big Five accounting auditors. (Auditors i.e. accounting firms are listed, followed by their related clients.) Arthur Andersen -- CMS, Cornell, Dynegy, Enron, Global Crossing, Halliburton, Martha Stewart Omnimedia, Merck, Peregrine, Qwest, Sunbeam, Waste Management, WorldCom David Duncan Deloitte & Touche -- Adelphia, AES, Cendant, Duke, El Paso, Merrill Lynch, Reliant, Rite Aid, Parmalat Ernst & Young -- AOL Time Warner, Dollar Gene ...

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Accounting scandals, Accounting scandals - Scandals, Accounting scandals - Big Five accounting auditors, Accounting scandals - Accounting scandals by year first reported, Accounting scandals - 2002, Accounting scandals - Later scandals, Accounting scandals - Outcomes

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Less than one year after the new brand was introduced, the company became involved in what was then the biggest accounting scandal in corporate history. Cendant disclosed in April 1998 that for about a decade prior to the merger, CUC had fraudulently overstated its income by over US$500 million. This caused Cendant stock to plummet from $39 to $20 in a single day, costing shareholders about US$14 billion. (This scandal was lat ...

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CUC International, CUC International - Accounting scandal, CUC International - Sources

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Bernard John Ebbers, also known as Bernie Ebbers is a Canadian-born businessman. He co-founded telecom company WorldCom and is a former CEO of that company. In 2005 he was convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the largest (to date) accounting scandal in U.S. history, as a result of WorldCom's false financial reporting, and subsequent 11 billion dollar loss to investors. On July 13, 2005, federal judge Barbara Jones, of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York in Manhattan, sentenced Ebbers to 25 years ...

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List of corporate executives charged with crimes, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Bernard Ebbers, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Richard M. Scrushy, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - John Rigas, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Dennis Kozlowski, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Andrew Fastow, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Walter Forbes, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Frank Quattrone, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Martin Grass, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Jamie Olis, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Heinrich Florian Günter Hefner Peter Schaefer and T. Rudd Corwin

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Orbitz constituted the airline industry's response to the rise of online travel agencies such as Expedia and Travelocity and trailed its major competitors by several years. Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Northwest Airlines, and United Airlines, subsequently joined by American Airlines, invested a combined $145 million to start the project in November 1999. It was code-named T2— some claimed, meaning "Travelocity Terminator"— but adopted the name Orbitz when it commenced corporate operations in February 2000. Beta testing began early the next year ...

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Orbitz, Orbitz - History and controversy, Orbitz - Online Boycott, Orbitz - Orbitz Games

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Marriott International was formed in 1993 when Marriott Corporation split into two companies, the other company was named Host Marriott Corporation. In 1995, Marriott International purchased 49 percent interest in Ritz-Carlton. In 1998, Marriott International purchased an additional 50 percent interest in Ritz-Carlton, giving them 99% ownership. In 2002 Marriott International begins a major restructuring by spinning off Senior Living Services Communities (new name not known) and Marriott Distribution Services, so that it can focus on hotel ownership ...

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Marriott International, Marriott International - History, Marriott International - Marriott brands

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Some historians date Orlando's name to around 1836 when a soldier named Orlando Reeves allegedly died in the area, during the war against the Seminole Indian tribe. It seems, however, that Orlando Reeves (sometimes Rees) operated a sugar mill and plantation about 30 miles (50 km) to the north at Spring Garden in Volusia County, and pioneer settlers simply found his name carved into a tree and assumed it was a marker for a grave site. They thus referred to the area as "O ...

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Orlando Florida, Orlando Florida - History, Orlando Florida - Geography, Orlando Florida - Neighborhoods, Orlando Florida - Metropolitan area, Orlando Florida - Climate, Orlando Florida - Economy, Orlando Florida - Transportation, Orlando Florida - Air, Orlando Florida - Roads, Orlando Florida - Rail, Orlando Florida - Buses, Orlando Florida - Education, Orlando Florida - Area institutions of higher education, Orlando Florida - Demographics, Orlando Florida - Culture, Orlando Florida - Area attractions, Orlando Florida - Sports, Orlando Florida - Other, Orlando Florida - Trivial facts, Orlando Florida - Famous people

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Accounting scandals - Big Four major audit firms. (Audit firms are listed, followed by select clients ensnarled by accounting scandals) Deloitte & Touche -- Adelphia, AES, Cendant, Duke, El Paso, Merrill Lynch, Reliant, Rite Aid, Parmalat Ernst & Young -- AOL Time Warner, Dollar General, PNC KPMG -- Citigroup, CA, GE, IM Clone, Peregrine, Xerox PricewaterhouseCoopers -- Bristol Myers, HPL, JP Morgan Chase, Kmart, Luc ...

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Accounting scandals, Accounting scandals - Links to Scandals, Accounting scandals - Big Four major audit firms, Accounting scandals - Predecessor and other U.S. audit firms, Accounting scandals - Accounting scandals by year first reported, Accounting scandals - 2002, Accounting scandals - Later scandals, Accounting scandals - Outcomes

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Delta Air Lines - Early history. The company has its roots in Huff Daland Dusters, which was founded in 1924 in Macon, Georgia by several partners including Collett E. Woolman becoming the world's first aerial crop dusting company. Huff Daland moved to Monroe, Louisiana the following year. In 1928, Huff Daland Dusters was purchased by C.E. Woolman and renamed Delta Air Services after the Mississippi Delta, where its route connected Dallas, Texas to Jackson, Mississippi, via Shreveport, Louisiana and Monroe. By 1934, Delta Air began mail service from Charleston to Fort Worth, including A ...

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Delta Air Lines, Delta Air Lines - Business Structure, Delta Air Lines - History, Delta Air Lines - Early history, Delta Air Lines - 1970s and 1980s, Delta Air Lines - 1990s, Delta Air Lines - Current Restructuring, Delta Air Lines - Advertising, Delta Air Lines - Incidents and Accidents, Delta Air Lines - Destinations, Delta Air Lines - New Routes / Future Routes, Delta Air Lines - Fleet, Delta Air Lines - Directors

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Andrew S. Fastow was the chief financial officer of Enron Corporation until the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission opened an investigation into his conduct in 2001. On October 31, 2002, Fastow was indicted by a federal grand jury in Houston, Texas on 78 counts including fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy. On January 14, 2004, he pled guilty to two counts of wire and securities fraud, and agreed to serve a ten-year prison sentence. He also agreed to cooper ...

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List of corporate executives charged with crimes, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Bernard Ebbers, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Richard M. Scrushy, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - John Rigas, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Dennis Kozlowski, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Andrew Fastow, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Walter Forbes, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Frank Quattrone, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Martin Grass, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Jamie Olis, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Heinrich Florian Günter Hefner Peter Schaefer and T. Rudd Corwin

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Frank Quattrone is a former securities banker at Credit Suisse First Boston who has been serving time in prison for obstruction of justice and witness tampering. During his peak at Credit Suisse he was earning roughly $120 million a year. After one mistrial, he went to trial for the second time and was convicted on charges of obstruction of justice relating to Credit Suisse First Boston's handling of IPO ...

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List of corporate executives charged with crimes, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Bernard Ebbers, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Richard M. Scrushy, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - John Rigas, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Dennis Kozlowski, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Andrew Fastow, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Walter Forbes, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Frank Quattrone, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Martin Grass, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Jamie Olis, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Heinrich Florian Günter Hefner Peter Schaefer and T. Rudd Corwin

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Leo Dennis Kozlowski , a former CEO of Tyco International, was convicted of misappropriating more than $400 million of the company's funds. Kozlowski has been tried twice. The first attempt was a mistrial as one of the jurors who sided with Kozlowski, later claimed that she was threatened. Kozlowski testified on his own behalf during the second trial, stating that his pay package was "confusing" and "almost emb ...

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List of corporate executives charged with crimes, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Bernard Ebbers, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Richard M. Scrushy, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - John Rigas, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Dennis Kozlowski, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Andrew Fastow, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Walter Forbes, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Frank Quattrone, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Martin Grass, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Jamie Olis, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Heinrich Florian Günter Hefner Peter Schaefer and T. Rudd Corwin

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John J. Rigas was one of the founders of Adelphia Communications Corporation which at its peak was one of the largest cable companies in the United States. He was also the majority owner of the Buffalo Sabres NHL Hockey Team. He was forced to resign from his position as CEO in May 2002 after being indicted for bank, wire, and securities fraud. Timothy J. Rigas and Michael J. Rigas, his sons, as well as Peter Venetis, his son-in-law, and Michael Mulcahey were also charged with participation in these crimes. The executives are ac ...

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List of corporate executives charged with crimes, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Bernard Ebbers, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Richard M. Scrushy, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - John Rigas, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Dennis Kozlowski, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Andrew Fastow, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Walter Forbes, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Frank Quattrone, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Martin Grass, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Jamie Olis, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Heinrich Florian Günter Hefner Peter Schaefer and T. Rudd Corwin

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Delta operates an all-Boeing (including McDonnell Douglas aircaft) fleet. Delta's Boeing customer number is 32,i.e. 757-232, 737-832, 767-432. Delta has abolished three-class seating for international flights, replacing first and business class with a single premium class called "BusinessElite" on all 777-232ER and 767-332ER aircraft. First and economy class still exist on all other aircraft types. For full and accurate list see http://www.delta.com/about_delta/corporate_information/d ...

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Delta Air Lines, Delta Air Lines - Business Structure, Delta Air Lines - History, Delta Air Lines - Early history, Delta Air Lines - 1970s and 1980s, Delta Air Lines - 1990s, Delta Air Lines - Current Restructuring, Delta Air Lines - Advertising, Delta Air Lines - Incidents and Accidents, Delta Air Lines - Destinations, Delta Air Lines - New Routes / Future Routes, Delta Air Lines - Fleet, Delta Air Lines - Directors

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Adventure games, like RPGs, often feature "fetch quests": in order to advance, the player has to help a character in order to gain information or an important item as a reward. In fantasy-themed games, this character is often a healer or magician, and the secondary quest is to find artifacts or items, not uncommonly ingredients for a potion. Adventure games have been criticized because some games adopt the attitude that 'the ends justify the means'. In such cases, the player must obtain an item from someone reluctant to cooperate, and ...

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Adventure game, Adventure game - History, Adventure game - Colossal Cave Adventure, Adventure game - Scott Adams, Adventure game - Graphical progress, Adventure game - Infocom, Adventure game - Sierra, Adventure game - LucasArts, Adventure game - Myst, Adventure game - Types of adventure games, Adventure game - Puzzle adventure, Adventure game - Action-adventure, Adventure game - Text based, Adventure game - Graphical adventure, Adventure game - RPG-like, Adventure game - Other, Adventure game - Modern adventure games, Adventure game - Common features, Adventure game - Notable adventure games, Adventure game - Series

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Richard M. Scrushy is the founder and former chairman and chief executive officer of the physical rehabilitation healthcare giant HealthSouth, based in Birmingham, Alabama. In 2003 he was accused of fraud by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for directing company officers to falsify financial records in order to have the company's earnings statements meet stockholder expectations. Scrushy is the first CEO to be charged under the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Scrushy was terminated by HealthSouth's board in the wake of the a ...

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List of corporate executives charged with crimes, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Bernard Ebbers, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Richard M. Scrushy, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - John Rigas, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Dennis Kozlowski, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Andrew Fastow, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Walter Forbes, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Frank Quattrone, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Martin Grass, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Jamie Olis, List of corporate executives charged with crimes - Heinrich Florian Günter Hefner Peter Schaefer and T. Rudd Corwin

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For much of the 1980s, adventure games were one of the most popular types of computer games produced. But in the mid-1990s their market share drastically declined, as action games took a greater share of the market, particularly first person shooters such as Doom and Half-Life that feature strong, story-structured solo games. This slump in popularity led many publishers and developers to see adventure games as financially unfeasible in comparison. Text adventures met the same fate much earlier, but their simplicity has allowed them to ...

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Adventure game, Adventure game - History, Adventure game - Colossal Cave Adventure, Adventure game - Scott Adams, Adventure game - Graphical progress, Adventure game - Infocom, Adventure game - Sierra, Adventure game - LucasArts, Adventure game - Myst, Adventure game - Types of adventure games, Adventure game - Puzzle adventure, Adventure game - Action-adventure, Adventure game - Text based, Adventure game - Graphical adventure, Adventure game - RPG-like, Adventure game - Other, Adventure game - Modern adventure games, Adventure game - Common features, Adventure game - Notable adventure games, Adventure game - Series

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