Word: frauds
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...heavily represented; after all, all Houses would contain minorities in proportions mirroring those in the University community. Besides, support structures, in the form of non-House groups and activities, would remain. Most acknowledge, too, that truly random assignment of rooming groups would be administratively simpler and less susceptible to fraud...
These fictional tales of computer capers are far from being futuristic fantasies. They were inspired by scores of real-life cases. The Wells Fargo Bank discovered a year ago that an employee had used its computers to embezzle $21.3 million, the largest U.S. electronic bank fraud on record. Since then, stories of smaller swindles have surfaced with disturbing regularity. Seven workers at a state welfare office in Miami were convicted last year of stealing at least $300,000 worth of food stamps by falsifying data fed into the agency's computers. Two former employees of the Central Fidelity Bank...
Still, we are used to this sort of Republican callousness, the supposedly indiscriminate slashing of illegitimte social progrms--"weak claims," David Stockman calls them, "waste and fraud," in Reagan's words--which then turns out to whittle away only the legitimate claims of the weak while propping up the Trojan Horse of the strong. Might, at home as well as abroad, makes right. The main fallacy of this New Federalism is the relationship between the central government and the local and state apparatuses. Who can pretend that the states are autonomous anymore, economically or politically? Who can pretend that...
Astronomers think otherwise. Some refer to the mail-order operation as "Stargate" and "Starscam." Says Swarthmore College Astronomer Wulff Heintz, without even the trace of a twinkle: "You could call it a fraud." What irritates professional stargazers is that the self-styled registry, which began in 1979 and "sold" more than 30,000 stars last year, is invading turf that has long been their special preserve. By astronomical tradition, only a few dozen of the brightest stars, such as Sirius, Vega, Betelgeuse and Aldebaran, are called by proper names, many of which derive from early Arab astronomy. The remainder...
...Guillermo García announced that members of the armed forces would not be allowed to vote, apparently to avoid any charges of military interference. The junta, meanwhile, decreed its new election laws. The use of voter lists will be abandoned. The lists were often a source of fraud in the past. They have also been outdated by the many deaths and dislocations among the population, and they risked being boycotted by voters who fear being murdered if their name appears on a list having anything to do with politics. Under the new system, a voter can present his government...