Word: faking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...return for helping the sheik to immigrate to the U.S. The money was carried away in a briefcase by Howard Criden, a Philadelphia lawyer and an alleged conspirator, who is to be tried later. Thompson and Murphy insisted they had never received any funds and had met with the fake sheik's emissary only to encourage the Arabs to make investments in their districts. Not only did the jury not believe the Congressmen, their constituents had doubts as well. Both were defeated in last month's election...
...sudden stairs that add controllable menace to ensurable surprise. More child's play still. Even the temporary homes of the rich, the so-called luxury hotels, are homes with a difference. The brand-new Palace Hotel in mid-Manhattan plans a library that will contain 4,000 fake-fronted books, thus creating what has to be the largest fake-fronted book collection in the country...
...genuine Cartier shop was opened last week to battle the imposter. The fake is the creation of Fernando Pelletier, a Mexican who has 14 "Cartier" boutiques, half of them in the capital, and others in places like Acapulco, Guadalajara and Puebla. They sell such bogus baubles as tank knock-offs assembled with cheap Swiss watch movements. Pelletier once offered to sell his stores to the Paris firm for $4.5 million, but irate Cartier officials decided to pay lawyers instead. The company has won 25 suits against Pelletier, but the copy Cartier remains in business, and still costs the Paris original...
...Soldiers Field to capacity fall silent. Holt is about to run the option play--a sprint to the left side of the field which will offer him two alternatives. The first is to find an open receiver and try to throw him a touchdown pass. The second is to fake the pass and attempt to run into the end zone himself. The ball is snapped. Holt rolls to his left, pump-fakes toward the goalposts and keeps on running, meeting the Eli defense at the goal-line and pushing forward for the score. The Crimson wins a share...
...with the bogus sheik or his representatives eight times in eleven months, was improperly enticed by the FBI. An FBI tape played at Myers' trial records FBI Informer Mel Weinberg, who acted the role of the sheik's associate, coaching Williams on how to impress the fake Arab. Said Weinberg: "You gotta tell him how important you are. You tell him in no uncertain terms: 'Without me, there is no deal. I'm the man who's gonna open doors.' " Thus, the jury's most difficult decision may be deciding if Weinberg went...