Word: cons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There are advantages in the series of con-connections that you make with friends and people that you know. It gives you a background on how to deal with people, doors tend to open more, and you tend to meet a broader base of people," Clark says of the Harvard connection...
...Lukas also characterizes Savadove as brilliant: "a con-man of the first degree." So, Lukas says, when Savadove told him that he intentionally delayed Kelly's arrival in the Square, he believed...
...factories have stirred a heated controversy in the U.S. over the number of American jobs that may be going to Mexican workers. The maquiladoras, thunders Victor Munoz, president of the AFL-CIO's 12,000-member Central Labor Union in El Paso, are "a scam, a con game. All they're creating is more profits." In February union workers surrounded a maquiladora trade show in El Paso with a caravan of trucks. Last week a team of U.S. analysts began a study of the border region for a House subcommittee that is examining the impact of the factories...
...centerpiece of the volume is Fuku, an 87-page autobiographical odyssey that combines verse and narrative. The title is attributed to an African word used by Latin-American peasants to describe con men and exploiters. Yevtushenko has a little list, starting with Christopher Columbus, whom he evokes as a gold-hungry conquistador and an impatient actor on the set of a television mini-series (" 'When will this all end?!' grumbled Columbus, feeling his face to see if his gray beard had come unglued. 'Somebody, bring me a gin and tonic...
...ethical transgressions go far beyond any gray area. Last week federal and New York City authorities cracked a phony tax- shelter scheme that allegedly bilked more than $115 million from at least 2,500 investors, including Comedian Eddie Murphy. The accused ringleader was John Galanis, 44, a hefty ex-con who managed to build a reputation as a financial wizard by spending lavishly on parties, automobiles and homes...