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...quickly backed away from that proposal after TWA officials contended it would not be feasible because the airline needs its domestic routes to feed passengers into its overseas flights. Wall Streeters doubt that Icahn will be successful in overhauling TWA. They point out that he would run into a maze of regulatory and financing problems. Said one industry expert: "The man is way out of his depth. He doesn't even know what kind of a nightmare he's getting into...
...more foreign goods," he said. "If each Japanese buys $100 in foreign goods, the increase in imports from that would amount to $12 billion, and foreign countries would be happy." To help make more imports available, Nakasone said, his government would take new steps to simplify the maze of regulations, standards and other restrictions that make the Japanese market seem impenetrable to many overseas companies...
Using various psychological and physiological tests, Farley thinks he can identify Type Ts with reasonable accuracy. In maze tests, for example, stimu lus seekers constantly vary their routes, even after finding an exit. In figure tests, where subjects are asked to make a circle around a design they like best, Type Ts tend to choose complex patterns. In studies that Farley ran at schools for juvenile delinquents, he found, as expected, that Type Ts were four to seven times as likely to try to escape as non-thrill seekers, presumably because they found prison life so intolerably dull and routine...
...lawyers have made themselves "integral parts" of today's complex criminal enterprises, said the report. They guide the laundering of illicit money through a maze of banks, real estate investments and other transactions. They provide up-to-date counsel on how to minimize legal exposure--for example, by drilling operatives on what to do and say when they are arrested. Using the shield of attorneyclient confidentiality, full-time Mob lawyers lend their offices as unbugged meeting places for the planning of new schemes. When lawyers commit crimes to "protect the leaders of criminal cartels," said Irving Kaufman, commission chairman...
...rumors raced through the maze of jam-packed shanties like a burning fuse: a fleet of government vehicles had arrived to relocate all 60,000 residents of the settlement, and a squad of toughs had been brought in to add muscle to the operation. The rumors proved false, but by dawn, the men of Crossroads, a wretched black squatters' camp in the sand dunes just outside Cape Town, began blocking the roads around their shacks with makeshift barricades of logs, stones, oil drums, old tires and anything else they could find. Then they set the barriers ablaze...