Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Everyone knew that date (June 1998) was a fraud," says Thompson, who notes Washington insiders are joking the U.S. Implementation Force that has become a Stabilization Force may be about to be renamed the Permanent Force. "Plainly, what they do now is just change the name of the Bosnian initiative whenever they run out of time." Thompson points out there's not much public opposition to continuing the deployment because none of the soldiers have been killed...
...instance, a special 1995 election to replace William H. Walsh-forced off the City Council after being convicted on 41 counts of fraud-was marred by dispute...
Could be. Last week the Governor was himself convicted in a Phoenix federal court of seven counts of fraud. A jury found him guilty of repeatedly lying on loan applications to shore up his wobbly real estate empire. Under stringent federal sentencing guidelines--of the sort he in the past would have heartily endorsed--Symington will almost certainly do time...
...guilty sense of the injustice of fame assaults the famed one as well: "Why am I famous? Why do all these people seem to love me? I don't deserve it. I am a fraud." The anguished, neurotic internal monologue gets dramatized in self-destructive ways (drug overdoses, alcohol, rampages, broken marriages, suicides or, if the celebrities are lucky, a trudge through the rehab that ends with confession and absolution in prime time: "I feel more centered now, Barbara"); all this mess forms up as part of the great sobbing dysfunctional pageant on display at the supermarket check-out counters...
Quittner states that somebody ran up a $3,000 bill on a duplicate of his credit card, that "the nice lady from the fraud division of the credit-card company took care of it..." and that he never lost a cent. It may be constructive to take the situation a bit further and figure out who did lose. My husband and I own a small business, and more than once we have had to deal with that "nice lady from the credit-card company" who tells us we have to absorb the loss. Even when insurance covers part...