Word: crookeder
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Van Andel said Amway was "totally innocent of any wrongdoing." Said DeVos: "The 1965 agreement was made between honorable people at the time." DeVos also told TIME, "We don't think they have a case. In no way whatsoever are we crooked."
DIED. Miriam Ottenberg, 68, investigative journalist for the Washington Star (1937-75) and winner of a 1960 Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles exposing the crooked techniques of used-car salesmen; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. Ottenberg would often impersonate a typical consumer, expose a fraudulent business, and then...
The result successfully steers clear of a cliche ridden things-are-bad philosophy. Avoiding the didacticism of hammering home a single point--the misery of the downtrodden--Terkel instead has culled enough of a range of happiness and unhappiness from his interviewees to stir the emotions without demanding any clear...
Max Nottingham, 33, a beer wholesaler in Hartford City, Ind., had crooked teeth as a child and recalls, "I just wasn't ready emotionally for braces." Years later, looking at a family photograph, he noticed that even as an adult he was holding his mouth "very strangely" in order...
The trouble with all this worldly success is that its recipient, Father Andrew M. (for Moran) Greeley, 54, is a Roman Catholic priest. It is not so much the money that disturbs his critics: diocesan priests do not take a vow of poverty. The sticking point is the novels themselves...