Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Federal agents were tipped off in August 1998 that unusually large amounts of money were zooming through the bank from Russian sources. Over the next 11 months, with the bank's cooperation, the Feds watched while at least $4.2 billion passed through several accounts, notably belonging to a mysterious British company called Benex Worldwide, then out to a confusing array of other banks and companies...
...more their bosses wanted. "Demand just kept growing," Sichel said. One of the early CIA exploits was Operation Gold, an ingenious tunnel under East Berlin that was used to tap Soviet telephone lines. Unknown to the CIA at the time, however, George Blake, a Russian mole in the British secret service, revealed plans for the tunnel to Moscow Center even before it was built. Blithely, the Soviets waited a year to fill it in, to help protect Blake's identity...
...aftermath of the bombing campaign in Yugoslavia, the final deaths have not been counted. Hiding in the countryside is American and British munition destined to kill...
With approximately 1,100 bombs dropped over Yugoslavia, there may be tens of thousands of duds lying in the former battlefields. The world got a dramatic look at the sort of damage these bomblets can cause when in June, two British Gurkha peacekeepers died while collecting unexploded bomblets from a schoolhouse in Negrovce. The explosion was so fierce that no part of their bodies could be found...
...shocked. And in a city of largely unflappable urbanites, this is big news. The mayor, a lover of opera and other more traditional art forms, is threatening to pull funding from the city's large but little-known Brooklyn Museum of Art, where a new show called "Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection" is scheduled to open in early October. The exhibit, which drew more than 300,000 visitors during its stint in London, features the familiar animal-in-formaldehyde installations by consummate shockmeister Damien Hirst, as well as works by Chris Ofili, Marcus Harvey and 39 others...