Word: herringer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commonplace and far more sophisticated than crude break-ins or thefts at state warehouses." One of the biggest frauds of the 1970s was the caviar caper, in which officials of the Soviet Ministry of Fisheries shipped expensive black caviar abroad in large cans marked "smoked herring." Western firms cooperating in the fraud repacked and resold the caviar. They put the Soviet conspirators' share of the profits into Swiss bank accounts. The swindle is still officially denied by the Kremlin, but the Fishing Minister abruptly resigned after some of the "herring" was mistakenly sent to domestic shops...
Your attack on Ronald Reagan's use of statistics [April 14] is a red herring. All that matters is Reagan's goals: less government and a stronger America. As the results show, voters care not for statistical analysis. Neither should TIME...
...each chapter has a date for a title. While the externals of '70s life--Master Charge, the Brady Bunch, straight-leg jeans, and Tab--wander through the book, they do so like ships adrift without any place to anchor. In fact, these details act like red-herring clues to the insoluable detective story of Morgan's psyche. Morgan seems even more eternal in contrast to the petty details of time and space that he rises above...