Word: dissected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tools at hand seem minimal for the task. Says Jaime Chavez, an international banking consultant: "The people who will probably be searching for it have a very limited knowledge of what money movement is all about. How is a third-rate employee of the Justice Department going to dissect the entire financial system to pinpoint the drug money correctly?" During the Reagan years, the budgets of agencies in charge of ctaching financial cheats failed to keep pace with the changing world of money manipulation. Even IRS agents are largely unprepared for the task of tracking transactions that can involve four...
...this virus did not develop the tumors. The implications for cancer research could be enormous: the rapid growth -- in eight to 16 weeks -- would afford scientists a rare opportunity to track the emergence and spread of cancer. Said Mosier: "This is an extraordinary breakthrough. We may be able to dissect that tissue week by week to see what happens to these cells...
...holy terror of Momism and Harvey's snide, pathetic pawn, brainwashed by both KGB AND CIA. And the movie's theory of endemic political corruption, which read as seditious in 1962, now feels like the sweet breath of reason. Few movies attempt to anatomize a whole sick society, to dissect the mortal betrayals of country, friend, lover and family; fewer films achieve this goal with such energy and wit. Voters will make their own choices this year, but for moviegoers the election is over. This Candidate delivers...
...going to be a battle of the quarterbacks. The smug traditions of Yale tailgaters will smother the Yale quarterback, and Harvard's clear and precise thinking will dissect the Yale defense," Sen. Timothy Wirth '61 (D-Colo.) says. "It seems to me the score will...
...industrial failure is the theme of Halberstam, Pulitzer prizewinner and author of The Best and the Brightest and The Powers That Be. The product of five years of research, his latest book attempts to dissect the double whammy suffered by the U.S. auto industry at the hands of OPEC and Japanese automakers. Much of Halberstam's rambling 752-page work is devoted to a dramatic recapitulation of the dynastic and bureaucratic maneuvering at two firms, Ford of Detroit and Nissan of Tokyo, before and during the great U.S. auto crisis of the late '70s. But the moral that Halberstam...