Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hustlers around the country in recent months. In New York alone, last year 190 people were arrested for participating in the hot line scam. Three local telephone companies and 20 long-distance carriers, including AT&T, US Sprint and MCI, joined forces to form a group called the Communications Fraud Control Association, which now includes a number of other phone companies. The association's mission: to help crack down on the growing practice by urging tougher laws and stricter law enforcement...
...Government isn't the solution," Ronald Reagan regularly intoned before coming to Washington. "Government is the problem." The Government, went his litany, was bloated with "waste, fraud and abuse," all of which desperately needed purging. His words proved prophetic, though not precisely in the way he intended: his Administration, from its very beginning, has been riddled from top to bottom with allegations of impropriety and corruption...
Opposition candidates began to denounce the elections as a fraud as soon as the first projections were announced. Accusing the government of widespread cheating, Enrile called the vote a "failure" and warned that it would lead to "instability of unimaginable magnitude." At a midweek rally, while his supporters shouted "Down with Aquino!," Enrile branded the election the "dirtiest in the nation's history." Next day, at a rally of 20,000 protesters in suburban Quezon City, Enrile declared, "Let us not stop until the cheaters have been punished." Enrile, whom Aquino dismissed as Defense Minister last November after his alleged...
...roue's sexual appeal is a chilly, offhand disinterest. Neither kind nor attentive nor particularly virile, he does not so much inspire devotion as command it; he does not so much arouse ardor as compel his victims to confront their suppressed sexuality. He believes all virtue is fraud, and he delights in destroying women by making them believe so too. He has only one love, the marquise, and she is less a companion than a rival. Rickman and Duncan are at once captivating and appalling. Theirs is a black-widow-spider courting ritual of conquests and abrupt abandonments...
...went to Ronald Reagan and National Security Council Adviser Robert McFarlane and told them of the expected donation. As matters turned out, there was no money and no prince: the would-be contra benefactor was Mousalreza Ibrahim Zadeh, an expatriate Iranian swindler who has pleaded guilty to bank fraud and faces five years in jail...