Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quivering with the fear that his captors were going to shoot him on the spot. He knew what execution squads attached to his unit were doing to others who tried to give up. Why should he expect better from the enemy? When he realized he was going to be fed and cared for, he fell to his knees and kissed the hands of a U.S. Marine...
...criminally tainted, money-laundering, Luxembourg-based global bank. That evidence last week prompted the Federal Reserve to interdict all transfer of money and assets between the two banks. The regulators asked the Justice Department, which has appeared reluctant to pursue allegations, to begin a criminal and civil investigation. The Fed was responding to pressure generated by Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau, who is presenting evidence of fraud, money laundering and disguised ownership to a New York City grand jury. Morgenthau has formally told the Fed his office has evidence that First American is under secret control...
...current methods for obtaining evidence in sex-abuse cases -- direct questioning and the use of dolls with sex organs -- are under fire. "Kids can be fed ideas they quickly come to believe are true, and these dolls are highly suggestive," says Lenore Terr, a professor of psychology at the University of California at San Francisco. For example, some of the dolls lack hands and have only painted eyes, yet they have highly explicit genital areas. Terr stresses that normally inquisitive children who play with these dolls can mistakenly be suspected of having been abused...
From kindergarten to high school, I was spoon-fed the proper "Arab" account of the "Arab"-Israeli conflict by teachers--mostly Palestinian and Jordanian--whose lectures, I realize in retrospect, were nothing but biased diatribes lacking even a hint of objectivity. No one disapproved. It fit well into the Pan-Arab framework...
Since war broke out on Jan. 16, crude prices have dropped from $32 per bbl. to $21 per bbl., but oil companies have been slow to cut retail gas prices correspondingly. This has fed anti-oil acrimony, but the industry argues that it is just making up for not hiking prices all the way during last fall's crude run-up. Even so, the average price of a gallon of unleaded is down to $1.18, only 10 cents higher than the day before Iraq invaded Kuwait -- and half that difference is from a nickel-a-gallon federal tax imposed...