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This week, take a look back on 2004 and test your knowledge of the Dumbest things of the year.
1. As we learned over the course of the year, alleged accounting fraud often generates colorful insider slang. Match each troubled company below with its number-fudging vocabulary.
i. Adelphia
ii. Computer Associates
iii. HealthSouth
iv. Nortel
v. Qwest
a. SLUTS (for "simultaneous, legally unrelated transactions").
b. Pixie dust.
c. 35-day month.
d. Hardness.
e. Accounting magic.
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