Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Success also brings money-and money attracts the Mafia. Employers pump barrels of money into some 240 Teamster pension funds round the country. The funds' assets now total perhaps $4 billion; the Western Conference of Teamsters alone has a pension fund of $1.4 billion, fed by employers of 475,000 Teamsters in 13 Western states who contribute between $6 and $26 per member per week...
Price Jumps. Those events fed speculation in marketing centers that the grain prices would rise rather than fall, and such prophecies can be self-fulfilling. Rumors spread that the Soviet Union may well want to buy as much as 10 million more tons of grain beyond the 10 million already ordered. That would exceed the amount it bought in 1972. Remembering the 1972 price hikes, market operators anticipated similar results this fall. Partly because of speculators seeking quick profits, the price of grain for later delivery began climbing. In the past month the price of Kansas City wheat jumped from...
...suspects allegedly falsified records, fed incriminating evidence through a paper shredder and conducted a cover-up so pervasive that one investigator calls it "Ice Cream Gate." Indeed, if the 244-count indictment handed up by a Brooklyn grand jury last week can be proved in a trial, a giant scoop of American innocence will have melted away-for the accused is none other than Good Humor Corp., which advertises its ice cream as "the next best thing to love...
...noncarcinogenic, only one, which happened to be a close chemical relative of a known carcinogen, caused the bacteria to mutate at a significant rate. Of the 42 other compounds, all known carcinogens, all but seven induced bacterial mutations by themselves. When the urine of rats that had been fed to three of the remaining compounds was placed in the culture dishes, it too produced mutations, suggesting that the chemicals, which may not cause cancer directly, are metabolized in the body into substances that do. With a slight change in the test method, three other compounds also proved mutagenic...
Readers of the Harvard Business Review are normally fed a strict diet of numbingly staid articles on management techniques and policies. In the current issue, however, they were served a shockingly unbusinesslike change of pace: the "Embezzler's Guide to the Computer," a 6,800-word how-to-steal article that details the ins and outs of swindling banks and corporations by tampering with their computers. Written by University of Virginia Professor Brandt Allen, a consultant to the FBI on computer fraud, "Embezzler's Guide" offers aspiring thieves encouragement ("There is a great deal of embezzlement that goes...