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#1 2005-11-12 20:06:09

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 674

'ledger domain' for 'legerdemain'

Especially eggcornish when used in reference to shady accounting, i.e., magic tricks with the ledgers. Examples:

Kopper will have to pay back $12 million in money generated by accounting ledger domain.
marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2002/08/21_mpp.html

... the most egregious example of the use of ledger domain by corporate management teams in hiding the truth about a company’s actual financial health.
energycommerce.house.gov/107/hearings/06262002Hearing608/print.htm

It’s a twelve-month period that depends on the company’s/government’s accounting system. Like magic, it involves a bit of ledger domain…
www.consolecity.com/forum/printthread.php?t=55833

...were attracted to that industry by a particular obsession with money, and wealth creation by ledger domain tricks.
portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/08/322642.shtml

But I have yet to read the whole truth: that this ledger-domain began with the
senior Bush’s crusade to eliminate Roosevelt’s pesky rules…
www.yuricareport.com/RevisitedBks/Palas … Reamin.htm

...what was then the HEW Secretary refused to approve the notion of NIH funding this research and for various logistical ledger domain…
sagecrossroads.net/081203transcript.cfm

And we may find some good congressional ledger domain too to make sure that we
do get this done…
commdocs.house.gov/committees/edu/hedcew6-88.000/hedcew6-88.htm

By your argument this legal ledgerdomain would transform unproductive retainers
into productive workers.
archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/ope-l/2005m10/msg00041.htm

However, one has to practice all sorts of cerebral ledger domain to look at the
situation in Iraq as one that is threatening to citizens in the US.
www.strike-the-root.com/3/prazak/prazak2.html

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