Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Aging Committee's structure, it clearly is part of its function. Some of the areas the Aging Committee has investigated recently include: Food Stamps and the Elderly (Agriculture has legislative jurisdiction over this area); the Impact of Rising Energy Costs on the Elderly (Interior); and Medicare and Medicaid Fraud (Finance...
...political realities. Anthony Keating is recuperating from a heart attack. A go-go property speculator during the flush '60s, he has been left teetering near bankruptcy by the collapse of land prices. His friend and financial adviser, Len Wincobank, is serving a four-year prison term for fraud. Kitty Friedmann loses a foot and her husband in a random terrorist bombing. Keating's lover, Alison Murray, has a teen-age daughter jailed for reckless driving in a Balkan Communist state. "England was a safe, shabby, mangy old lion now," she mused. "Anyone could tweak her tail...
...Rasputin of fraud. The straggly hair that frames his craggy Florentine features is a fright wig of deceit. His flamingo legs carry him with awkward zest from sin to sin, while his tongue utters unguentary lies. Yet we are too conscious that he is a self-aware villain, scoring stunning acting points without carrying complete emotional conviction. And Stefan Gierasch's Orgon is not quite the ideal foil. He seems more like an exacerbated paterfamilias who wants Tartuffe to cow his recalcitrant brood rather than a breathless gull hopelessly infatuated by a bogus saint...
Percy profusely apologized to Lance for causing him a Labor Day weekend of pain over the tax fraud reports-and fatuously claimed that he, too, had been appalled by the way the newspapers had interpreted his remarks. In fact, there was no other way Percy could have been read; he had, indeed, knowingly and quite precisely suggested that Lance may have intended to cheat on his income...
...fell into a series of haggles, Lance and his recently acquired attorney, Clark Clifford (see box), watched with faintly hidden amusement. Later, Missouri Democratic Senator Thomas Eagleton picked up the Lance line and harshly assailed Percy: "On September 9, Senator Percy gave every indication that Lance was a tax fraud cheat, and in his mellifluous tones he said well, you know, I am not saying directly that you are a tax cheat, I am saying inferences can be drawn therefrom. Yesterday, Senator Percy said, 'I apologize for any anguish I may have caused you over the weekend.' Marvelous...