Word: deale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That includes the use of stolen airline tickets. According to the INS, stolen tickets are part of a package deal, including phony IDs and Social Security cards, that smugglers provide to their clients. And for one person, Barbara Pisa, that news was vindication of sorts. For three years, ever since her Classic Travel Agency in Naperville, Ill., was one of 28 agencies in the suburbs west of Chicago hit by what police describe as a Colombian burglary ring, Pisa has waged a one-woman crusade to focus attention on what she and others say is a serious public-safety issue...
...McLaughlin, it transpires, has been making copies of more than 250 CD-ROM game titles for the Sony PlayStation. He's been selling them via his website, hundreds a week, at $20 a pop--around 60% off the cover price. Fast-forward to last month, and McLaughlin cuts a deal, pays a large fine and makes a very public apology. And the forces of law and order confiscate his PlayStation...
...before becoming a novelist, insists on doing his own legwork and recently covered peace talks between the government and rebels. "Journalism is the only trade I like," he told the New York Times. Easy for him to say. World leaders take his calls, and he already has a book deal...
...pressure to exaggerate their own importance. All scoops, even real and important ones, by their nature resist perspective. "In a development that experts say could revolutionize our thinking about toast, XYZ News has learned that..." No scoop ever begins, "In a development that may not be any big deal..." Thus what starts out as a quest for the truth often ends up just adding to the world's supply of dishonesty...
...criticisms reflect a lack of knowledge and do a grave disservice to inspectors general. Inspectors general root out waste, fraud and abuse and investigate misconduct. They do not have any independent power to prosecute but instead work with federal prosecutors on cases that are suitable for action. And they deal with anonymous denunciations the way any professional investigative agency does: they pursue allegations that have merit and reject those that do not. MICHAEL R. BROMWICH INSPECTOR GENERAL Department of Justice Washington...