Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...return. Before they were through, they went far beyond Donald Crowhurst's logs. The resulting book is a portrait of the ill-fated adventurer as well as an examination of his tragic voyage and dishonest messages. It is about a man who attempted an elaborate fraud, went slowly insane, and then apparently committed suicide-written with considerable perception and evident care. Crowhurst's widow cooperated with the authors, who refuse to condemn the all too common weaknesses of the book's protagonist, though their text unfolds with the precision of a district attorney's summation...
Critics responded only with more skepticism. Consumer Crusader Ralph Nader, G.M.'s No. 1 foe, dismissed the committee as "a fraud." The organizers of Campaign G.M., a group that has been pressing the company to exercise greater social responsibility, complained that the committee "has no blacks, no women, no consumer representatives or environmentalists." The apparent moral: Only tangible and prompt action will quiet G.M.'s persistent detractors...
Denouncing the Middle East cease-fire as a "political fraud," China has carried on secret talks with the Palestinian commandos, who are opposed to a truce with Israel. China supports ongoing conflict partly because it wants to counteract any Soviet-American cooperation, partly because it wants to appear as the champion of revolutionary forces. Chou received a delegation of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Peking last week, and the Chinese chargé d'affaires in Baghdad has reportedly promised the guerrillas unlimited aid. Chinese aid so far has consisted mainly of small arms that are shipped to the Iraqi...
...along the Strip, a small army of investigators-the D.A.'s men, SEC investigators, IRS and FBI agents-are getting in one another's way searching for information on cases ranging from suspected murder to income tax evasion, blackmail, embezzlement and stock fraud. It is probably no coincidence that some hotel and casino officials have left town in a hurry. Pierre P. Mottoros, an analyst with Equity Research Associates, explains the entire situation with deliberate understatement: "I'm afraid that Las Vegas and casinos still have an image that deters conservative money...
...more than the coincidences of the bargaining calendar. The U.S. worker has been taught to expect that every year he will live at least a bit better than the year before. The very idea is embedded in the American dream, but inflation has turned that dream into a cruel fraud. Because of increases in prices and taxes, the real purchasing power of the average U.S. worker in manufacturing or service trades has declined about 2½% since September...