Word: jigging
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...jig was up when a disgruntled Japanese trading-company employee who helped with the sale wrote a whistle-blowing statement that found its way to MITI. The agency's initial probe made no headway, since Toshiba Machine's executives stuck so uniformly to their phony story. Inside the company, a full-scale cover-up was under way, in which employees incinerated documents by tossing them into factory furnaces. When the allegations were finally leaked to the press last March, MITI was compelled to send the police, who grilled employees until the truth emerged...
...Whidden says, "When something like that goes wrong it usually manifests itself into one huge screw-up, because everyone has to do an extra job and ends up one step behind in his normal duties." But in three minutes and two seconds, both the jib and the jig were up. The Kiwis never caught the campers...
...success when it comes -- Danny decided instead that it's a gas things have worked out so well." It was Brooks who helped cast DeVito as Louie DePalma, the pernicious troll of the Sunshine Cab Co. on TV's Taxi (1978-83). Expectorating slurs, dancing a jig at the bad luck of his betters or revealing the winsome vulnerability of a lizard left too long in the sun, Louie ranks with Frank Burns of M*A*S*H and Mary Tyler Moore's Ted Baxter as one of sitcom's great no-goodniks. Without truckling, DeVito made the loathable lovable...
What do the Soviets have to chuckle about now that their jig is up in Central America and the U.S. is ready to confront ruthless communist aggression head...
...brash, rafter-ringing Pentecostal preacher and Gospel singer (his albums have sold 13 million copies) who preserves the old tent revival style at his striking 7,000-seat Family Worship Center outside Baton Rouge, La. In his weekly one-hour broadcasts, he prowls the stage, sometimes breaking into excited jig steps, as he revs up perorations assailing Communism, Catholicism and "secular humanism," the last of which he blames for abortion, pornography, AIDS and assorted social ills. He takes in $140 million a year. The money pays for his weekly show (aired in 197 markets), his daily Bible study...