Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most damaging of the disclosures were documents that directly implicated Marcinkus in the loan scheme. The archbishop had signed "letters of patronage" for the dozen Panamanian ghost companies that received the loan money from the Banco Ambrosiano. The letters stated that the companies were controlled by the Vatican Bank and were apparently intended to serve as references or guarantees for the lender. Investigators are not sure at this point where the $1.4 billion went or what it was used for. It is believed that some of the money, perhaps as much as 10%, was used to buy stock in Banco...
...mass of the Saudi population. And since the government has no plans for enforced migration of workers, an effort that would doubtless enrage every fiercely independent Saudi in the country, residents will have to move voluntarily. Otherwise, the infant city could wind up becoming an enormously expensive ghost town...
...dodge. What he does not know is that they are about to slink back. In no time, sheiks and burglars are added to the mix, along with the mandatory defrocking of women and the depantsing of men and doors popping open and slamming shut as if by the ghost of Feydeau...
...biographies of Lyndon Johnson accuse him of both worldly corruption and spiritual hallucinations. Journalist Ronnie Bugger, for example, cites L.B.J.'s vivid conviction that he was talking regularly to the Holy Ghost-in person, like Joan...
...attention. Still, Watergate has weakened the presidency somewhat. And that may be part of a longer process. None of the past five Presidents have completed two full terms. That is disquieting. Assassinations and forced retirements inject an odd sense of foreboding into presidential politics. There is the ghost of a thought that Americans are growing so impatient and unleadable that they insist on ritually disposing of the President every four years or less. The pat tern need not be inevitable, but in moments of depression, Americans may imagine that the procession of somehow foreshortened presidential terms makes the U.S. like...