Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work entering data from thousands of applications for FHA insurance into a computer. But Beverly Hirsch, 36, who is serving a 40-year sentence for credit-card and check fraud, was surprised to see that some forms carried not only information on applicants' income and debts, but their bank-account and credit-card numbers as well. "The information they were giving me in here was what I worked pretty hard on the outside to get," says she. Concerned that some inmates might try to cash in on the information, Hirsch alerted reporters and the U.S. Attorney's office. That...
...brochures, at least, home banking comes across as a great advance. Customers can pay bills with a few keystrokes. They can instantly move money from one account to another, enabling them to keep cash in interest-bearing money-market accounts until the exact moment it is needed elsewhere...
...five TIME staffers who covered the campaign, edited by special projects editor Donald Morrison and introduced by historian Garry Wills, this concise inside story is the first book-length chronicle to reach the bookstores after the longest and nastiest presidential campaign in memory. Read it for the definitive account of how George Bush...
McGinniss now moves from the heinous to the despicable. Blind Faith is a highly stylized account of an upscale murder case in a small town on the edge of the Pine Barrens that, like so many New Jersey backwaters, has gone from quiet ruburb to bustling suburb in the past two decades. On the night of Sept. 7, 1984, Maria Marshall, 42, was shot to death while sitting in the family Cadillac. Husband Robert O. Marshall claimed he had parked the vehicle in a dark picnic area off the Garden State Parkway to inspect a tire. He further maintained that...
...gallon of unleaded gasoline, which costs roughly 95 cents, is nearly a third cheaper now than it was eight years ago. When inflation is taken into account, the price decline is closer to 50%. Raising the federal gasoline tax by 50 cents per gal., from 9 cents to 59 cents, over the next five years would renew drivers' interest in fuel conservation...