Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...investigation, the largest and most complex yet into money laundering, was called Operation C-Chase for the $100 bills (C-notes) that are the denomination of choice in major drug deals. While previous probes had netted mostly low-level operatives, C-Chase bagged far bigger suspects. The arrests were based on indictments handed up by federal grand juries in Tampa and other cities. The indictments named some 80 defendants and the first banking company ever charged in the U.S. with money laundering: the Luxembourg-based Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the seventh largest privately held financial institution...
...concert was initiated by the Princeton Tigertones, who suggested it to the Interfaith Hunger Appeal last spring. Traditionally, the Harvard, Yale, and Princeton groups perform together at the Trilogy Concert at Princeton. "I guess they decided to do something bigger [this year]," Larsen said...
Richards' lyrics are adequate, if not great. "You Don't Move Me"--a swipe at Mick Jagger for his current reluctance to record with other Stones--is a litany of lines like "It's no longer funny/It's bigger than money." The album's best track, the country ballad "Locked Away," begins with the wonderfully terse summation, "She swears that I'm the only one/What about yesterday?" The singer goes on to suggest that she, he and his friends "ought to be locked away"--she for her faithlessness, he for his insane jealousy, and his friends for their insensitivity...
...made allegations about Cuomo's ties to organized crime on the television show Nightline, accused specific Wappingers Falls police officers of raping Brawley and blamed the whole situation on the political motivations of just about every New York political figure. Perhaps they were hoping that by making the lie bigger and bigger, it would become true...
...save 50% of / a full year's income just to put up the down payment, as opposed to 33% in 1978. As a result, those buying homes tend increasingly to be those lucky enough to have parents from whom they can borrow money. Then, when they need a bigger home to accommodate a growing family, often the best they can hope for is to inherit their parents' house rather than to build or buy a bigger one themselves...