Chemical Cowboys
Chemical Cowboys

Author: Lisa Sweetingham

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2009-02-24

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 0345509773

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In 1995, after receiving a tip from an informant that a new drug called Ecstasy was being pushed in Manhattan’s nightclubs, DEA agent Robert Gagne embarked on a mission to unravel one of the world’s most lucrative drug-trafficking networks. Chemical Cowboys tracks Gagne as he infiltrates New York’s club scene, uncovering a multimillion-dollar criminal empire that spans continents. At its helm is Oded “Fat Man” Tuito, an Israeli fugitive and elusive drug kingpin who combines Wall Street business savvy with old-fashioned street smarts and a taste for violence. A taut behind-the-scenes glimpse into an international criminal enterprise, Chemical Cowboys is a riveting tale of one man’s obsessive pursuit of justice—and the personal cost of that obsession.

Colleges that Change Lives
Colleges that Change Lives

Author: Loren Pope

Publisher: Penguin Mass Market

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780140239515

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The distinctive group of forty colleges profiled here is a well-kept secret in a status industry. They outdo the Ivies and research universities in producing winners. And they work their magic on the B and C students as well as on the A students. Loren Pope, director of the College Placement Bureau, provides essential information on schools that he has chosen for their proven ability to develop potential, values, initiative, and risk-taking in a wide range of students. Inside you'll find evaluations of each school's program and personality to help you decide if it's a community that's right for you; interviews with students that offer an insider's perspective on each college; professors' and deans' viewpoints on their school, their students, and their mission; and information on what happens to the graduates and what they think of their college experience. Loren Pope encourages you to be a hard-nosed consumer when visiting a college, advises how to evaluate a school in terms of your own needs and strengths, and shows how the college experience can enrich the rest of your life.

Pursuing a Single Mission (or Something Closer to It) for the IRS.
Pursuing a Single Mission (or Something Closer to It) for the IRS.

Author: Kristin E. Hickman

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13:

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It is often said that taxes are the lifeblood of government. As the nation's tax collector, the IRS serves a critical function without which the federal government would cease to function. Yet the IRS is an agency in crisis -- mired in scandal, chronically underfunded, overreliant on automation, and failing to provide taxpayers with the support they need to comply with the tax laws and pay their taxes. This Essay argues that a major contributor to the IRS's woes is Congress's penchant in recent decades for utilizing the IRS to administer social welfare and regulatory programs that are only tangentially related to the IRS's traditional revenue raising mission. This Essay examines the consequences of that choice and calls for reforming the IRS's organizational structure to segregate the revenue collection function from the biggest and most politically fraught social welfare and regulatory programs that currently fall within the IRS's jurisdiction. To that end, this Essay suggests giving serious consideration either to spinning off several non-revenue raising programs from IRS oversight or to splitting up the IRS altogether and distributing its many functions among other new or existing agencies.

Cross-Cultural Partnerships
Cross-Cultural Partnerships

Author: Mary T. Lederleitner

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2010-02-23

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0830837477

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Cross-cultural specialist Mary Lederleitner brings missiological and financial expertise to explain how global mission efforts can be funded with integrity, mutuality and transparency. Bringing together social science research, biblical principles and on-the-ground examples, she presents best practices for handling funding and finance.

At-a-Glance
At-a-Glance

Author: Charles P. Rettig

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Charles P. Rettig provides random bits of interesting information gleamed directly. An overview of the IRS, itís Operating Divisions and operations. When was the IRS created? Who does the IRS report to? Who makes the decisions as to which players will be on the field? Where can you find a complete copy of the Form 1040 first introduced in 1913? Many practitioners know that IRS Special Agents attained national prominence in the 1930's for their efforts leading to the conviction of Public Enemy Number One, Al Capone (for income tax evasion) and their role in solving the Lindbergh kidnaping. However, did you know the first IRS criminal Special Agents were actually Inspectors transferred to the Bureau of Internal Revenue from the United States Post Office?