The 40-year-old, who had worked for the university in a variety of positions for 14 years, was employed as a research business manager in the School of Cancer and Enabling Sciences at the time of the fraud.

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"Lenders will use a two-year average to derive self-employed income, " says Karen Mayfield, national mortgage sales manager at Bank of the West.

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Louis Cardinals manager a couple of years ago asking him when he employed the tactic and what the benefits were.

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It seems like a short time ago that Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, subject of the best-selling book Moneyball, first employed a new school of analysis that placed added value on statistics like on-base percentage while devaluing more traditional numbers like batting average and stolen bases.

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Urie, perhaps best known for a role on "Ugly Betty, " plays all the other parts, too the stern house manager, Streisand's mate James Brolin, Alex's boyfriend (an "under-employed screenwriter and habitual TCM watcher") and, of course, Streisand herself.

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