Word: caper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...caper took a month to plan, and just 64 minutes to execute. On Friday, May 13 -- a date chosen in a spirit of mischief -- an $18,000-a-year clerk at First National Bank of Chicago set in motion a simple scheme that nearly bilked his employer out of $68.7 million. Aided by a gang of accomplices and his knowledge of a few secret codes, Gabriel Taylor, 27, electronically transferred the money from accounts belonging to Merrill Lynch, United Airlines and Brown-Forman distillers to accounts that some of the conspirators had set up under assumed names at two banks...
...best description of Bellman and True is an oxymoron: it is, of all things, a dour caper. That is, a usually merry cinematic enterprise -- the one in which a group of swagmen laugh all the way to the supposedly impenetrable bank vault from which they intend to extract millions -- is shown with brutal realism...
...pyrotechnics. "Duke's is a very unclear message," says a ranking Gephardt adviser. "He doesn't know what he's trying to say, and it's been the same since ((Campaign Manager John)) Sasso left last October." Sasso's departure in the wake of the Joseph Biden "attack video" caper has left the Dukakis campaign with no one of that stature to override the candidate's own stubbornness. Even now Dukakis vows not to neglect his Governor's duties for the campaign trail. He still balks at suggestions that he adopt a more moving oratory, and resists foreign policy briefings...
Last week the campaign denied any connection with the hapless caper. Gephardt Spokesman Don Foley said Dinsmore was an independent consultant, not a full-time campaign official. "Dinsmore was doing this on his own," insisted Foley. As for Dinsmore's $1,200-a-month stipend in September and October and a lofty title engraved on business cards, Foley replied, "We're going to take his business cards back...
Counterfeiters Collect Change in Criminal Coin Caper...