Three of the nation's top investment banks, three of the nation's top law firms, a prominent auditor, the SEC, and a top private equity firm (Refco's largest shareholder) all failed to uncover the fraud.
After a long career as one of Russia's top spooks, he's now at the top of the Kremlin's most wanted list.
"It's narrow-minded to not understand that there's top talent in Ghana, and there's top talent in Indonesia, " he said.
Many of the continent's top players have become rich and famous in Europe's top leagues, especially in England and France.
Back in 2000 the world's top business magazine hooked up with Crystal Cruises, the world's top cruise line, to produce investor cruises.
But there are also some big differences, such as the composition of their commodity exports: New Zealand's top exports are dairy, meat and forestry products, whereas Australia's top three are coal, iron ore and gold.
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Britain's top finance officials in recent months have played down the importance of the country's top-notch credit rating.
America's top military officer has condemned a course taught about Islam at one of America's top military schools as "totally objectionable".
Bryan pulled off a dizzying upset, all right, beating out the night's top winner Miranda Lambert, two-time entertainer of the year Taylor Swift and top male stars and good friends Blake Shelton and Jason Aldean for the academy's top award.
Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet and Brazilian Cardinal Odilo Scherer round out Paddy Power's top five -- and though betting on the next pope is illegal in the U.S., the Irish bookmaker is offering 20-1 odds on Cardinal Timothy Dolan, America's top Catholic.
Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet and Italian Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco round out Paddy Power's top five -- and though betting on the next pope is illegal in the U.S., the Irish bookmaker is offering 33-1 odds on Cardinal Timothy Dolan, America's top Catholic.
They are also League One's top scorers after having scored 81 goals so far this season and in Scotland they have the division's top-scorer with 23 goals.
Those two clubs rank as baseball's two top sports brands (see "The World's Top Sports Brands"), so the incremental value Rodriguez brings in terms of ticket sales and TV ratings is limited.
Donegal woman Jennings will compete against the world's top women's riders in both the time trial and the road race in Canada.
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With Spain's top club's all losing key players - Eto'o is expected to play for Cameroon against Rwanda - while La Liga is still in the balance.
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But Nottinghamshire star Broad, who slips out of the top world's top 10 bowlers after toiling on a dead pitch in Chittagong, claimed the attack was more than happy with their showing.
In the case of a new small car, the Fiesta, that will be sold worldwide starting next year, Ford's top U.S. designer, Peter Horbury, suggested jazzing up the largely European design by adding certain chrome details favored by Americans.
While you're probably more interested in connectivity than colors, it's worth mentioning that the NUC Thunderbolt features a red top panel that's made of plastic, whereas the NUC Ethernet sports a black top panel that's fashioned out of aluminum.
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Now, following fresh rule changes, the best-picture field announced Tuesday didn't include any huge hits: The year's top earner, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, " is missing, as are all the year's other top-10-grossing films.
"It's like opening the windows in a convertible when the top's already down".
Indonesia and Brazil now find themselves in the top four of the world's top polluting nations as a result (around 80 percent of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions tally comes from deforestation).
Wie will take on 11 of the world's top 30 women in the Women's Australian Open at Royal Canberra Golf Club starting Thursday, including top-ranked Yani Tseng, 2012 LPGA Player of the Year Stacy Lewis and two-time British Open champion Jiyai Shin.
Among the factors that made IBM and EMC Celera's top choice is IBM's experience migrating data from old systems to new ones.
Worldwide, Magna is already Chrysler's top supplier and Daimler's No. 2.
Of course, even as a means to evaluate the relative performance of a league's top sides, it's the kind of metric that needs to be taken with inevitable caveats.
One of the main commentators has been India's top election official, Dr M S Gill.
As Israel's top diplomat, Mr Lieberman's hardline policies, blunt invective and disregard for political correctness have raised concern domestically and internationally.
But there have also been plenty of departures, with last season's top-scorer Jake Speight's move to League Two side Bradford City the most notable.
Britain has only Andy Murray ranked inside the top 200 of the men's rankings, with Elena Baltacha the sole representative in the women's top 100.
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