Word: frauds
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...million eligible voters. Although the FIS is still party non grata, Zeroual has agreed to allow opposition from moderate fundamentalist parties as long as they removed Islamic references from their names and platforms and renounced violence. TIME's Scot MacLeod reports that while international monitors agree that outright ballot fraud was relatively absent, to most Algerians, the outcome was rigged from the start since Zeroual party relied on government patronage and control of television to boost its chances...
...seemed to have lost Gardiner's family was faring no better, as an anonymous tipster--who had approached the family at home claiming to have seen Gardiner at the St. Nicholas Arena in New York City on the night of his disappearance--appeared to be an obvious and obnoxious fraud...
...those frilly unmentionables ogled in catalogues and purchased from pink boutiques may be illegally imported from China. That's the allegation being leveled at the Limited, the retail giant that controls Victoria's Secret, as well as at Lane Bryant, Structure, Express and Abercrombie & Fitch. In a civil fraud case recently unsealed in Los Angeles, the U.S. textile industry, which includes manufacturers such as Springs Industries, claims it has revealing evidence that the Limited knowingly purchased reams of Chinese apparel mislabeled to indicate that it was manufactured in Hong Kong. Private detectives rooted through the trash of the Limited suppliers...
William H. Walsh, the only council member to dissent, no longer sits on the council, following his conviction and sentencing on state fraud charges...
Make no mistake: this is a big business. Seventy-five years after the A.M.A. called the hype surrounding vitamins a "gigantic fraud," the drug companies are racing to keep up with their increasingly independent customers. Kaups' self-care began 30 years ago, when a doctor suggested vitamin B for her recurrent headaches. "It worked," she says, "but after I read up on it, I knew I could put something together better than what the pharmaceutical company could give...