Word: illicited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the New York and Chicago probes are being handled by two different collaborations of Government agencies, the groups are looking for many of the same kinds of illicit trading techniques. One tactic believed to be under investigation is "front running," in which traders assure profits by executing trades for their own accounts before they carry out their customers' orders...
PROSECUTOR John Keker recently accused North of destroying classified government documents and telling "100 percent, old fashioned, all-American lies." For example, North allegedly fabricated a story about a box of cash in his bedroom to cover for his skimming money from illicit Contra...
MEETING people was easy on the "Love Boat." Once you were invited on the show, you knew you'd have some illicit rendezvous with a washed-up movie star. Barring that, you would be sure to hit it off with Merril, Julie or Gopher...
...hair) responds to every real or imagined threat to his property values as if he were commanding a platoon in Nam -- with trusty telescope, walkie-talkie and a K ration of animal crackers. Another friend (Rick Ducommun) is your basic bully-wimp who goads Ray into all manner of illicit snooping. And Ray is the mild soul caught in the middle; with no special convictions, he mutates from a slightly curious homeowner to a horribly singed home wrecker. Hanks throws himself into this antiaudience movie with such suave energy that he seems determined to torpedo his hard...
BECAUSE Billy is not fully a member of the gang, he makes an excellent narrator. He has chosen his side and is privy to information, but he retains enough of his independence to report believably. Readers get more than a taste of depravity--murder, violence and illicit sex are painstakingly described, but thanks to Bathgate, they never grow callous. The readers' initial premise is not inverted...