Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suspicions, we would see a new world war break out every day just on the basis of suspicions. Nobody can prove P.F.L.P.-G.C. involvement in the matter. No one has any evidence. If there is something new in the matter, whoever produces it, we hope he will let us know about...
...Butler and Scurry know as Sam Perry is really Richard Perry, a gambler who has twice been convicted on federal charges of sports bribery. In 1974 Perry was convicted in connection with a major New York betting scandal at Roosevelt and Yonkers raceways. He was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and fined $10,000. In 1984 Perry pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit sports bribery as part of the notorious Boston College point-shaving scheme. At the trial, recalls Edward McDonald, head of the Organized Crime Strike Force in Brooklyn, N.Y. Perry was referred to as Richie...
UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian announced that Daniels would never play for the school. Perry was outraged. "He said if we had treated Daniels right, we would have got a number of New York guys," recalls Tarkanian, who claims to know Perry only as Sam and believes he is in the "commodities" business. Daniels, who left UNLV, has since been in at least two drug-rehabilitation programs. He played for a time in the C.B.A., and is now back in New York City...
...much more expedient than the body checks we had in prison," says a resident. For the facility's manager, Bari Caine, the system is an excellent way to keep track of 84 residents and a high-turnover staff. "We can't always expect every staff member to know every resident's face," she says...
...rummage would be to miss the point. Irving's litany of error and folly may strike some as too righteous; but it is effective. His glaring capital letters aside, Meany reminds us that, after the nostrums of the Great Communicator, news should be more than what we did not know yesterday and are likely to forget tomorrow...