Word: frauds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third Republican nominee to oppose Dukakis this year, Kariotis had offered cabinet positions to his predecessors. Hyatt left the gubernatorial race after allegations emerged of fraud on his election papers and bizarre personal conduct. Switzler bowed out soon after, when he was found to have falsified his Vietnam War record. Both appeared on the ballot in the primary, while Kariotis waged an unsuccessful write-in campaign, gaining the nomination by default...
...think a real opportunity was missed in Reykjavik. SDI is not only a fantasy, it is a fraud. If the President persists in his SDI fantasy, there is no possibility of success in arms control. All the President is doing with his fixation on Star Wars is to make arms control more difficult to achieve. He is escalating the arms race, as the Soviets build more weapons to block SDI. The Soviets will not consent to limitations on their strategic missiles without receiving something in return. I'm appalled that the Administration did not understand what was at stake...
Voter registration by mail already exists in 23 states. Many of them report increased registration and turnout, and a Federal Election Commission Report in 1980 found no increase in voting fraud in any of the 23 states. It works, and it hasn't been abused...
...arrive on the scene almost as fast as the lawyers, and movie producers are not far behind. Such was the case with R. Foster Winans, the former Wall Street Journal reporter and author of the paper's influential "Heard on the Street" column. Winans was convicted last year of fraud and conspiracy for leaking the contents of his articles before their publication to two New York stockbrokers, who traded on the information and earned nearly $700,000 in illegal profits. The reporter, who received $30,000 of that money, was sentenced to 18 months in prison...
...important industry. Cotton is no longer king, nor is sugarcane. The unemployment rate of 12.8% is the second highest in the nation, just behind Mississippi's. Some 80,000 people have left the state since 1983. The Governor, smooth-talking Edwin Edwards, has survived two trials on racketeering and fraud charges, though he did not emerge unscathed. Two state administrators have been jailed on corruption charges, and two others are under indictment. "I am frightened about our future," says Greenwell Springs Resident Joyce Payer. "I am worried about my husband's job. I have lost mine. The image...