31.   The Thatcher affair is especially troubling for the legions of former dot-com executives here who have long faced accusations of creative accounting as their firms burned up cash.

32.   Such creative accounting led the governor of the Dutch central bank and future head of the embryo European central bank, Wim Duisenberg, to warn on Tuesday.

33.   The budget uses creative accounting while overtaxing Canadians to give the impression that it sharply reduces the deficit, Charest added.