Word: flagrante
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest of the game looked like typical Union hockey: sloppy and slow. Union, despite a number of flagrant hits, was saved most of the penalties, though, while Harvard collected nine in the last 40 minutes of the game, including a 5-minute major called on Farrell for cross-checking in the third...
...disgruntled generals -- not to mention U.S. smart bombs. Bush faces a more complex set of inhibitions. Saddam has been playing a brilliant game of "cheat and retreat," chipping away at the sanctions without driving the allies to retaliation. He is not likely to hand Bush the kind of flagrant breach that would spur a unanimous vote for war among U.S. allies. Washington is prepared to go it alone, says a senior Bush adviser, but "we've gone to a lot of effort to construct a world where we could get the civilized community to agree on moves to deal with...
...hard to police. Poor record keeping and lax enforcement by the SEC, for example, have typically made such cases difficult to detect and prosecute. Unless there is unshakable evidence to the contrary, insiders can easily explain away questionable deals as simply being fortuitous. And often even the most flagrant-appearing trades can fall within legal bounds. The Bioscience transactions, now challenged by shareholders as improper, apparently satisfied SEC guidelines. Explains Robert Gabele, president of Invest/Net, a Fort Lauderdale research firm that tracks insider trades: "Many corporate insider trades are not illegal, just unethical. There's a thin gray line...
...Terrified at the prospect of facing an angry electorate in November amid charges of a cover-up, Democrats and Republicans alike voted last week to come clean. The identities of all 355 check floaters will not be made public until next month, but the 24 most flagrant offenders will be outed next week. According to the the House ethics committee, these members "repeatedly and routinely" abused the overdraft privilege by writing checks that exceeded the amount of their next month's salary at least eight times within the 39-month period under investigation. One member kited 996 checks totaling...
Congressional leaders concede that many of the more flagrant abusers may be voted out of office because of the scandal. In the meantime, Foley seems to be doing his best to ensure that Russ avoids paying a higher price for his failure. The Speaker has promised Russ that he can stay on for three months, probably as a "consultant." That is the amount of time he needs to become eligible for his pension...