Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just last January, the Department announced it had dropped an investigation of fraud at the General Dynamics Corporation's Electric Boat subsidiary. The move prompted criticism later the same month from retiring Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who told a Congressional panel that investigated false and inflated claims by contractors were nothing unusual: "Today, defense contractors can do anything they want with nothing to hinder them...
...whose phone never rang until she invented a partner who was, naturally, male (she got his name from marrying an electric shaver to a football team) and who would nominally solve all her cases. Clients flocked. Then an incessantly self-admiring bunko artist figured out Laura's canny fraud and threatened to expose her unless she let him become Steele, with appropriate office space and elaborate perks...
...false atomic-emergency alert. There is a rich widow (Tanya Berezin) who has purchased a potential Wimbledon champ (Brian Tarantina) for off-court recreation. There is an Ivy League professor (Fritz Weaver), broken in mind, health and will, who has reached the conclusion that teaching is a fraud. His much younger wife (Nancy Snyder) is as smarmily supportive as she is unbearably actressy. And then there is Barnard Hughes, a man who enhances the scope and embellishes the vocabulary of acting every time he steps on a stage. He plays a tart priest whose vocation has gone AWOL...
...basic role of government should be to refrain from interference with individuals, except to protect them from force and fraud." Shipman told the nine students who gathered at Burr Hall...
...Medical School finished celebrating its 200th year last week when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)announced that the University mismanaged $1.7 million in government money, which must be paid back. There has been "no fraud, no abuse, no misuse of federal funds. We basically, don't think we owe [the government] any money," said University Financial Vice President Thomas O'Brien...