Word: collared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...district attorney is now conducting an investigation focusing on Sword and one of the 1992 co-chairs, Charles K. Lee '93. The probe, according to district attorney spokesperson Jill Reilly, is being treated as "a white collar crime case--the embezzlement or stealing of funds...
...scene in Harris County's Southbend subdivision is eerie, like something out of a doomsday movie. Once busy streets with names like South Autumn Drive and South Valley Lane are largely still and deserted. Houses are boarded up. There are few signs of life in this blue-collar neighborhood 18 miles south of downtown Houston, where 2,800 people once thrived...
...good times in the Rockies are producing a distinctive old-and-new life- style laden with a backpack of paradoxes. Its trademark is no longer the pickup truck with rifle rack driven by a blue-collar hunter but the Jeep Cherokee or the Range Rover maneuvered by a young professional who more likely than not favors gun control. "I love it here in Denver," says Tom Bauer, 33, a Harvard-educated architect who left Skidmore Owings & Merrill in Los Angeles to try his hand at environment-sensitive design in Colorado. "Sure, I worry about urban problems like crime catching...
...limbs, harvesting logs or digging minerals out of the earth. Somebody living on retirement income, somebody working in a service industry, we begin to wrinkle our noses." However, Power sighs, "very few of us in future are going to mine the earth, harvest logs or work in blue-collar manufacturing, and we'd better get used...
While fraudulent claims are a top priority in the FBI's white-collar-crime division, the White House has yet to target such scams to lower the cost of national health. Perhaps it should. According to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, bogus claims account for between 3% and 10% of the nation's $900 billion health bill. A crackdown on fraud could help defray the tab on Clinton's health-care proposal, which he previewed last week in a speech in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Broad on themes and thin on details, the plan aims to provide adequate coverage...