Word: caper
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...GREAT MUPPET CAPER...
...sexist remarks and reduced both the S-M and indeed all sex to largely symbolic situations. It became fairly standard, for example, for one of the Angels to be trapped for long minutes in some burning building. The variety of threats seemed endless-the scalding steam bath caper, for one, or the cruise ship with the homicidal maniac aboard, or the time the face-lift farm was taken over by mobsters...
...hours after the police found a strange collection of characters at the Watergate. (Actually, Watergate was a regular soap opera of the fortuitous: if one of the burglars had not stupidly left tape over the latch of a rear door, the night watchman might never have discovered the caper and Congress might never have investigated and the White House tape system might never have been revealed and Richard Nixon might never have resigned.) Luck was the invisible hand that prompted Skylab to scatter its debris over Western Australia, not rush-hour Manhattan. Even transcendently foresighted NASA might admit that...
...caper makes plain that bank electronic funds-transfer systems are only as trustworthy as the people who use them. Lewis knew the procedural ropes, having earlier in his eleven years with Wells Fargo worked in the bank's computer center. Though federal officials regard Wells Fargo as a well-managed bank, some critics have wondered whether Lewis' scam went on so long in part because the bank has been adding so many branches-nine a year-that finding competent supervisors has been difficult. Cooley concedes that Lewis found "a flaw in our system." But the bank has changed...
...enforcement officers and computer experts say that the MAPS caper was typical of the kind of embezzlement that computers make possible. Transactions that once required several signatures on a piece of paper are now carried out instantly by the use of silicon microchips. With modern communications networks, money can be sent in a moment to a bank branch in the next county or in the next country. For example, the transfer of $7.9 billion last month from American banks to the Bank of England as part of the deal to free the American hostages in Iran took less than...