Word: affair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...purchase a 3% interest in the Frontier Hotel, where he became the slot manager. But several stockholders of the hotel turned out to be stand-ins for Detroit mobsters, and Wynn was forced to sell early. He was never accused of being anything but an innocent in the affair, and he did get something invaluable out of it: a friendship with the most powerful banker in Las Vegas, E. Parry Thomas. Wynn came to his attention partly because he stood out in the Las Vegas of the late '60s: he was young, fit, wore understated tailor-made suits...
Harvard won the match without allowing Yale a point, winning the first four matches to clinch the seven-point affair...
...B.C.C.I. affair, about which you have read much in these pages, is now given full exposure in a riveting book, The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of B.C.C.I. (Random House), by investigative reporter Jonathan Beaty and senior editor S.C. Gwynne, who were among the first journalists to seize on the serpentine elements of this global scandal. After writing nearly a score of penetrating TIME articles, Beaty and Gwynne took a six-month leave of absence and, working from 750 lbs. of documents and notes, transformed a forbiddingly complex news story into a dramatic account...
Running public school systems is an immensely complicated affair. It requires a working knowledge of educational theory, management, labor relations and fiscal policy. In short, it is the province of professionals. There are already well-funded, professional education bureaucracies at the federal, state and local levels. Unfortunately their policy innovations are held hostage to the novice nobodies of undemocratically elected school boards-which is not to say that a truly democratically elected board would do any better...
...Friends and relatives battle over selling their stories to Hollywood. "Mom, when they make the movie, can I play myself?" asks Wanda's daughter as if she were seeking a lift to the mall. Layers pile on layers: we watch as Wanda watches herself on Donahue and A Current Affair; the film's producer and writer appear as themselves; and the entire story is framed by a videotaped "interview" with Wanda wearing a new blond hairstyle but the same bone-chilling self- assurance...