Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nationwide rash of telephone fraud has struck Harvard, running up phone bills--and headaches--for administrative offices all over the University, the Office of Information Technology (OIT) said yesterday...
...Marxist, Jagan has been contesting elections in the South American nation of Guyana (pop. 751,000) since 1953, when it was a British colony. He claims to have won several but says he was kept from serving out his mandates by British or American CIA machinations or by vote fraud. Last week he won yet another vote, and this time the loser, President Desmond Hoyte, urged Guyanans to accept the result and allow Jagan, who now supports free-market policies, to become head of state at last...
...court convicts Garvey of the official charge of conspiracy to commit securities fraud, he faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a fine that could exceed $500,000, said Prosecuting Attorney David Meister...
...should smash the current educational curriculum. I see the multiculturalism being peddled now as a fraud. History is being distorted. It is regarded as nothing but a record of pain, oppression, disaster and atrocities. My master plan for world understanding is a new kind of education based on comparative religion and archaeology, on an arts-centered curriculum. I am also calling for a Reform feminism instead of the hatred of men now being peddled. Feminism must turn back toward...
Winter said council fees, high premiums and the ever-present threat of lawsuits are just a few of the ways lawyers hurt the corporate economy. He also said that "amorphous" laws make it too easy for corporations to be charged with fraud...