Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supposed to have seized, federal agents became suspicious. Surveillance revealed that Dan Mitrione Jr., 38, a ten-year FBI veteran, had been involved on the sly in the same drug deals he was assigned to monitor. According to official sources, Mitrione, while working on a project code-named "Operation Airlift," sold the more than 90 lbs. of cocaine skimmed from the Memphis bust for cash and property worth about $850,000, and took bribes from the drug traffickers he was investigating. Said FBI Director William H. Webster: "The corrupting power of drug money is one of the obvious reasons...
...honors regulations, which will become binding beginning with the Class of 1989, replace a system fraught with loopholes and complications. Where confusion and inequity once reigned, the revised code institutionalizes simplicity and fairness...
...honors regulations, which will become binding beginning with the Class of 1989, replace a system fraught with loopholes and complications. Where confusion and inequity once reigned, the revised code institutionalizes simplicity and fairness...
Think of it: island hopping on your private yacht and watching the sun set in the port of your choice. Thanks to provisions of the U.S. tax code, a booming charter industry has sprung up to make such dreams come true. The tax shelters enable landlubber investors to buy yachts and lease them to vacationers for as little as $600 per person per week, or about the cost of a first-class beach resort. Says Simon Scott, marketing manager of The Moorings, a charter company that operates 110 yachts in the Caribbean islands of Tortola and St. Lucia: "Yachting...
...retire when his current term ends in 1987. Son of the "Kingfish," Huey P. Long, Louisiana's legendary populist Governor and Senator, "Princefish" Russell, 66, came to the Senate in 1948. Enthroned as the powerful chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, he became an acknowledged master of the tax code, manipulating it to protect his home state's industries. In a series of filibusters in the 1950s and '60s, Long's bayou banter helped slow civil rights legislation; later he softened his views...