Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drew to an end, Keynes had his fill of politics. His hope was that a reasonable treaty, calling for moderate reparations, might save postwar Europe from the economic disasters he foresaw. When Woodrow Wilson, among others, foiled his plan, he referred to him as "the greatest fraud on earth." All his frustrations, all his suffering poured out in the book that made him famous, The Economic Consequences of the Peace...
Where's Herb? Who knows, but Burger King's white-socked, balding nerd cannot be found taking any bows in the Alabama senate. Last week that august body passed a resolution denouncing Burger King for "consumer fraud" in its Where's Herb? contest...
...parents decided to complain to their state senator Mac Parsons. After investigating the dispute, the Alabama senate concluded that Burger King had never made the rules of the game clear in its advertising campaign. The lawmakers threatened to "invoke remedial legislation" if the company failed "to rectify the consumer fraud it has perpetrated." Said Senator Parsons: "I feel what Burger King did was as bad as what the Grinch did when he stole Christmas...
Marcos was toppled after a disputed national election in which both he and Mrs. Aquino claimed victory. With widespread evidence of fraud, key military leaders deserted Marcos, who after a tense two days, averted possible civil war by accepting a U.S. offer of safe haven...
...deserves no credit for bringing Israel's runaway inflation under control because the Prime Minister "knows nothing of economics and is by nature a man who gives in." Moda'i later called Peres "the flying Prime Minister" because of his many trips abroad, and accused Labor ministers of "cynical fraud" for bailing out businesses owned by Histadrut, the Israeli trade-union confederation...