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<text id=93TT0246>
<title>
July 26, 1993: It's All In the Lie
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
July 26, 1993 The Flood Of '93
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BEHAVIOR, Page 54
It's All In the Lie
</hdr>
<body>
<p>Cheats on the links are cheats on the job
</p>
<p> The savings and loan crisis. The B.C.C.I. caper. Insider trading.
Think of all the notorious business scandals that briefly enriched
white-collar crooks during the greedy '80s. All those financial
fiascoes might have been prevented with a simple lie-detector
test: golf.
</p>
<p> For proof, consider Golf and the Business Executive, an "attitudinal
study" (translation: poll) by Hyatt Hotels & Resorts. In the
survey, nearly half of 401 executives agreed that "the way a
person plays golf is very similar to how he or she conducts
business affairs." At least some were speaking from self-knowledge:
55% admitted cheating at golf at least once. The offenses included
moving the ball to get a better lie (41% of the executives),
not counting a missed tap-in (19%), taking an extra tee shot
(13%), intentionally miscounting strokes (8%) and secretly producing
a fresh ball while pretending to look for a wayward one in the
woods (6%). Such behavior has dire implications for the nation's
Better Business Bureaus, since one-third of those who confessed
to cheating on the links also admitted to pulling fast ones
on the job.
</p>
<p> Conclusion: if only someone had noticed Charles Keating Jr.
and colleagues emerging from sand traps with suspicious ease,
American taxpayers would not now be billions of dollars in the
hole.
</p>
<p> By Michael Quinn
</p>
</body>
</article>
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