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There's nothing quite as unnerving as becoming the target of fraud. For us at Wendy's, that nightmare became reality when a customer falsely accused the Wendy's on Monterey Road in San Jose, Calif., of putting a human fingertip in a bowl of chili. Within an hour the story was on TV news, and soon after, Wendy's was fodder for Jay Leno. It was painful for us to watch unfold. In the early hours of this crisis, we were faced with demanding questions. How we chose to respond was critical. The exposure of this hoax by authorities has completely vindicated Wendy's....

Spare me the 10-year anniversary recollections of the Orange County bankruptcy of 1994, which are too self-serving for my tender stomach. I'm still guffawing after former county administrator Ernie Schneider told a fellow Register columnist that he should have followed his instincts and demanded an audit of then-Treasurer Bob Citron's Ponzi-like investment schemes. Oh, please. A decade ago John Moorlach, our current treasurer, warned, loudly and clearly, about the looming financial disaster. The instinct throughout county government wasn't to conduct audits and blow the whistle on the scam, but to circle the wagons, protect themselves and their treasurer and treat...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

Well, three days after the election, it has become evident that the Democrats haven’t learned a single thing from their failure this campaign season. However, I have learned a great many things, which I shall share with you, my illustrious reader. I learned that a sitting President with a large allied majority in the House and Senate is a “lame duck.” I learned that if a particular party wins a Presidential election with a historic number of votes, and increases its majority in Congress, it means that he has no recourse but to reach out and pander to the party...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) - NASA failed to learn important lessons from its past mistakes and needs to improve its oversight of shuttle contractors, some of America's top space experts told Columbia investigators Thursday. But they said declining budgets at the space agency may not have contributed directly to the tragedy.</p>