Word: armfuls
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...Salt Lake Organizing Committee, and Dave Johnson, a former senior vice president, were indicted on federal charges, including bribery and fraud. The charges were dismissed last year, but the Justice Department last month appealed the dismissal. All along, the Mormon church has tried to keep the scandal at arm's length--Hinckley says he had instructed the church to remain strictly "neutral" in every aspect of the Olympics. The hope is that by the opening ceremonies, the scandal will be largely forgotten...
...Discover and Gateway, gave Johnson everything on the fraudulent applications. Others, including Zales and American Express, told him next to nothing. "Giving customers some information would hamper our security efforts," says AmEx spokesperson Judy Tenzer. "We consider an investigation a law-enforcement issue," says Maria Mendler, of Zales' lending arm, Citibank...
...involved agrees they are low and that the only practical alternative is prevention. Victims are advised to place fraud alerts on their credit reports, which flag potential lenders to contact their home or office before approving an application. Two months after Johnson posted these preauthorization advisories, Gateway's lending arm called to say it had rejected a fraudulent application. The same day, American Express phoned to see whether Johnson had received an Optima card--one he hadn't applied...
...politicians who have won the most ink and plaudits as the peace process has lurched forward are not the responsible nice guys like Durkan, but the bomb throwers and rejectionists who have come in from the cold. In elections last summer, the S.D.L.P. slipped behind Sinn Fein, the political arm of the I.R.A., for the first time; since 1998 its vote share has dropped from first to fourth. Durkan deadpans that his party "has developed a powerful empathy with the prodigal son's brother...
...trader, Jim Schwieger, challenged Lay. Why, he asked, was chief financial officer Andrew Fastow sharing the stage--and gainfully employed--considering that he had just blown half a billion dollars mismanaging several Enron partnerships and earned $30 million doing it? Lay put his arm around Fastow and proclaimed his "unequivocal trust" in the CFO. The partnership accounting was complex stuff, Lay explained, but Fastow was on top of it--or he'd be in big trouble. A day after that buddy-buddy display, Fastow was history...