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...losses. Undercover customs agents first stumbled onto B.C.C.I. money laundering during a sting operation. As part of the scheme, agents sent several million dollars of Medellin cartel drug funds through a B.C.C.I. bank in Miami. What happened next was worthy of Alice in Wonderland. Bank officers noticed the agents' amateurish attempt at money laundering and offered to teach them more sophisticated methods. Example: the bank would wire funds to B.C.C.I. branches around the world before handing the cash back to drug traffickers in the form of phony loans. The narcotics kings happily paid large fees for the customized service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Capital Scandal | 3/4/1991 | See Source »

Many of the solo singing performances are nicely done, but the ensemble numbers almost invariably lack energy. And while Monique Malfitano's choreography of group numbers was original and visually interesting, its execution is often uncoordinated and somewhat amateurish...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Porter's Aged Nymph Goes Astray at Harvard | 1/12/1990 | See Source »

...Western Europe jittery American allies wondered whether Reagan was once again indulging himself by kicking his favorite terrorist -- and what the cost would be. Military bases went on alert in Italy, where Lampedusa Island was the target of an amateurish Libyan missile attack after the U.S. bombing of Tripoli in 1986. Britain supported the U.S. assertion that Rabta is intended for weapons production, but the Thatcher government urged Washington not to attack it. The French, who are host to the chemical-weapons conference at UNESCO headquarters, were irritated. The sharpest criticism came from the leftist Paris daily Liberation: "Gaddafi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemical Reaction: The U.S. presses Libya over a nerve-gas plant | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

...insurance company, who had never run a political ad shop. In mid-September D'Alessandro arranged the Shoot-Out at the Ritz-Carlton, a demeaning screening of potential scripts. In a cavernous baroque banquet room, ad-makers flipped through their storyboards to impress the new team. It was an amateurish tryout that produced more bitterness than ads. Among those produced was a semicoherent series ridiculing Bush's handlers. Although they are certain to form the core of Kennedy School seminars for the next four years, they baffled viewers. "His people weren't ready for the big time," said former Dukakis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of A Disaster | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...limited record in Congress and when pressed to prove his credentials he was forced to list summer internships he held while still a student. On his first day on the stump as a vice presidential candidate. Quayle seemed overwhelmed, jumpy, amateurish...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: Is Quayle a Boom or a Bust? | 8/19/1988 | See Source »

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