Word: deale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senate leader Bulger will face renewed criticism in coming months over his role in a controversial Boston real estate deal. Last week, Massachusetts Attorney General James Shannon called upon the U.S. Justice Department to review the federal probe of the 75 State Street construction project, to which the South Boston Democrat is linked...
...typical shady deal they are believed to have detected is the "bucket trade," in which a broker slices an extra profit margin by buying a contract from a confederate at a bit more than the going price in the pit, or selling one for a bit less. For example, if a customer asks the broker to sell a soybean contract of 5,000 bushels and the market price is $7.50 per bushel, the crooked broker may sell the contract to a colleague for $7.40. That gives the colleague a discount of 10 cents per bushel, or $500, some of which...
...years later, Brown is embroiled in a contest in which the racial clauses are unwritten but not unspoken -- the election of the chairman of the Democratic Party. "The Democratic Party is the last, best hope of this country to deal with issues of race, region, religion and ethnicity," he says as he hops around the country in a Gulfstream jet loaned by the United Food and Commercial Workers union. "This election has become a test of that...
...last August, Walesa refused on the grounds that Warsaw must first legalize Solidarity. Though Jaruzelski's proposal last week did not entirely satisfy Walesa's demand, opposition leaders predicted that the Solidarity leader will agree to join the talks. "If we blow it here, other people will have to deal with the same problem again," said Walesa, who promised a decision soon. "I don't want my son or his generation to live through such things again, where it all accumulates, rots and then explodes...
...chewing physicians, some might charge, citing the classic occupation for science majors. That objection has some merit. Yet science concentrations also prepare research doctors, of whom we can never have enough. Science concentrations also make for more broadly informed politicians, lawyers and businessmen, all of whom may have to deal with scientific issues such as the atmosphere and genetics...