Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stacks of $50s or $100s in which payoffs are often made. By a process known as laundering, criminals deposit money in American or foreign banks, then withdraw it and invest it in construction projects, real estate or corporations. There is a lot to launder. The underworld's haul is estimated at no less than $ 170 billion annually from drug trafficking, prostitution and illegal gambling. Last week a report by the President's Commission on Organized Crime presented recommendations that would make it harder to use legitimate financial institutions to hide profits from crime...
...that information could prevent another crime, it is not an obligation. Religious questions are between me and my God, and not between me, my God and the state." Michael Fitzgerald, a lawyer for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami, maintains that under the current law a grand jury could haul in every cleric in Florida and ask, "What have you heard about child abuse lately and from whom did you hear it?" But Denny Abbott, a Florida crusader against child molestation, insists, "The overriding concern should be for our children, and clergymen should report these crimes...
...Warehousing books somewhere outside Cambridge, which is the most radical and currently least feasible option. With costs much lower 15 or 20 miles away, a remote storage building would greatly cut expenses over the long haul, but require a large initial cost which the library may not be able to afford right...
...month of March at Harvard signifies midterms, senior theses, and the end of the long haul to spring break. It also brings the two-week carnival that is the freshman housing lottery...
Just the workaday production of Lewis is superlative, but in conserving his strength so calculatedly over the four-medal haul, he never completely strained either his own talent or anyone else's imagination. And the effect was not enhanced by his omnipresent moneymen or the press releases and voice tapes he sent to the victory conferences in lieu of himself. In a humorous snag, Lewis charged that he was "misquoted" by newspapers reporting his declaration: "If someone had jumped farther, I would not have come back." It was on his cassette...