from Malay luri
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“Auditing doesn’t tell a complete picture of a company,” said Ben Lourie, an associate professor of accounting at University of California, Irvine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
The Mosaic label, which he founded with the music-business veteran Charlie Lourie 41 years ago, has become the gold standard of archival jazz releases.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
Centricus co-founder Nizar Al-Bassam and chief executive Garth Ritchie are heading the bid, which also includes hedge fund manager Jonathan Lourie of Cheyne Capital and Bob Finch of Talis Capital.
From BBC ● Mar. 21, 2022
No Maryland governor has been impeached, according to Owen Lourie, a historian with the Maryland State Archives.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2022
Ann Lourie spoke with a Southern intonation, but it was different from Miss Hull’s speech and Poppy’s lazy drawl.
From The Twins in the South by Whitehill, Dorothy
Late one May afternoon at his Mauricedale office, Hume stands in khaki shorts, scooping handfuls of live mealworms and tossing them to his bird, Princess, a purple-crested lourie.
From BusinessWeek ● Dec. 9, 2010
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