Word: blanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While less suspenseful, the next game was even harder to swallow. In itself, Hershiser's 6-0 shutout was unsurprising. After topping off his Cy Young season with 59 scoreless innings -- one more than Don Drysdale's eternal streak -- he had blanked the blankety-blank Mets in the playoffs. But against Oakland, the hits that Hershiser allowed weren't as astonishing as those he accumulated: three of them. No Series pitcher had given as good as he got since the Yankees' Don Larsen went 0-for-2 in 1956. Orel yielded three singles but took two doubles and a single...
...BCCI for their laundering operation. The agents collected cash from Medellin dealers in the U.S. and deposited it at domestic banks, then wired the money to the account of a newly created shell corporation in the BCCI branch in Panama. The agents then provided the Colombian traffickers with signed blank checks that could be cashed at most banks...
...were overseas, BCCI allegedly used them to buy certificates of deposit at banks in France, Britain, Luxembourg, Uruguay, Panama and the Bahamas. Using the CDs as collateral, BCCI then issued phony loans for slightly smaller amounts to the agents' Panamanian account. Once again, the agents gave the Colombians signed blank checks drawn against the account. BCCI collected the CDs as "payment" for the loans, pocketing the difference in the amounts as a commission...
...returns, also partial, showed 2,771,995 "no" votes for 57.6 percent, and 2,022,031 "yes" votes, or 42.2 percent. It gave no specific count of blank or voided ballots...
With 15,960 of the 22,248 voting tables reporting, the Interior Ministry announced that "no" ballots totaled 2,754,805, or 53.3 percent, while "yes" ballots totaled 2,290,972, or 44.3 percent. There were 121,400 ballots that were blank or voided for being wrongly marked...