Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...page to page is enough to demonstrate the existence of the bomb." The writer's totalization belongs to the domain of non-knowledge. But without it, he would be reckoning up an abstract world, not a living world, and that is the shallow goal of an entertainer or a fraud...
...going on. "My foreman said if we sign with Chavez, goodbye job," worried one worker in Delano. A new five-member State Agricultural Labor Relations Board -which Teamsters and growers argue is heavily biased in favor of Chavez -will have its hands full sorting out charges of election fraud as balloting continues over the next unquiet months...
...about it and make their living by it gain prestige, esteem and pecuniary return, as does a doctor or a witch doctor, from cultivating the belief that they are in privileged association with the occult ... Though professionally rewarding and personally, profitable, this too is a well-established form of fraud...
...THEFT FROM YOU. So read the stern red-and-white warning signs put up by federal officials on thousands of abandoned homes across the U.S. The signs are meant to discourage vandals, but in fact the houses themselves have all too frequently been used and discarded in a loan-fraud scheme that costs the Federal Housing Administration-and U.S. taxpayers-dearly. Last week the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which oversees FHA operations, estimated that since 1968 the Government has lost $1.4 billion on the foreclosure and resale of homes originally bought with FHA-backed loans...
...revelations, Mayor Richard Daley persuaded the FHA to cancel an auction of 700 foreclosed houses scheduled for last month while a federal-city task force inspects them to determine their fitness for habitation. The local U.S. Attorney is investigating allegations against six mortgage lenders for mortgage-insurance fraud...