Word: answered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After playing neck and neck in the first quarter, the Crimson dove ahead. It drew fouls left and right and reaped 42 percent of its goals on power plays. Washington and Lee, after failing to answer five Harvard goals and losing one of their key players to penalties, prepared to jump ship...
...latest joke making the rounds in Budapest carries a bitter truth. "Who will win the soccer championship this season?" Answer: "The team with the fewest players in jail." But to most Hungarians, there is nothing very funny about the soccer bribery scheme that by last week had developed into one of the biggest sports scandals ever to touch the East bloc...
...born poor, Marcos regarded bribes and corrupt profits as perks of office; he skimmed millions, for example, from the country's cigarette-tobacco monopoly. But Seagrave estimates that the ex-dictator's fortune may be as much as $100 billion. Whence came that awesome wealth? Seagrave's answer is that Marcos had located and dug up part of a vast horde of stolen bullion known as "Yamashita's Gold...
Finally, Seagrave seems so concerned about building an indictment that he fails to answer the question of what really made Ferdinand and Imelda tick. What drove them to accumulate billions they could never have spent in three lifetimes? What possessed her to buy those infamous closetsful of unworn shoes? Still, the author does persuade us that his subjects, Ferdinand in particular, were paradigmatically venal. Lyndon Johnson, no mean connoisseur of cads, may serve as final witness. After one encounter with the self- glorifying Marcos, L.B.J. called in Assistant Secretary of State William Bundy and warned, "If you ever bring that...
White focuses on the 1986 case of Marsee vs. United States Tobacco Company, to show how a company's evasive policies can work to its advantage. Arguing that the head of U.S. Tobacco refused to answer questions pertaining to the charges that Sean Marsee died from oral cancer as a direct result of chewing tobacco daily for seven years, White presents convincing excerpts from the case testimony...