Word: inspector
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later in the trial, a government fraud inspector testified that the house of Cruse had also stretched real Bordeaux by mixing it with low-class Midi red. A truck driver who frequently drove from Bert's warehouse to the Cruse cellars admitted that he had switched papers to disguise the origin of the cheap red Midi wine. Still another witness was a lawyer for le fisc (the French income tax office), who asked that the court fine the defendants $18 million for cheating the government...
...parked outside, listening to the sounds of fashionable music and unaware of the curfew, Lucien is grabbed from behind by a guard and taken for questioning as a spy. Inside, an unlikely group of outcasts--a playboy aristocrat, a cycling champion past his prime, a colonial black, a police inspector dismissed by Leon Blum's Popular Front before the war--reigns over the hotel in sybaritic decadence. Downstairs is all dancing and champagne; only once in a while does anyone go upstairs for "business"--torture and interrogation...
...safe to say we have ruled out food poisoning in favor of a virus," University sanitary inspector Charles Krause said yesterday, after completing his investigation of Monday's sudden outbreak of stomach illnesses...
...beginning in an immediately interesting and inherently funny way--taking Rosencrantz and Guildenstern out of their Hamlet context and making an existential comedy out of their dislocation; writing the ultimate parody of a murder mystery play and having his onstage critics sucked into the action in The Real Inspector Hound; creating a Professor of Moral Philosophy who tries to disprove Zeno's paradoxes of motion with a real hare and a real tortoise in Jumpers. Up till now, formulas like these have served Stoppard well--his plays have uniformly been among the most intelligent, enjoyable and effective theater...
...Dutch cops assert that France began to get on top of its growing narcotics problem only when it started imposing 20-year jail terms on drug dealers. In The Netherlands the maximum term is four years, but judges usually hand down sentences of only a year or so. Laments Inspector Cor Elbersen, head of the Amsterdam narcotics squad: "The drug traffic came to Holland because the sentences are lighter. I'd like to see stiffer penalties, but I'm tied by the laws of this country...