Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holding most of the loot. The FBI theory is that Joseph DiPalermo, a capo in the Lucchese group, supervised the plot and the disposition of the money and jewels. The authorities believe that the mob got the cooperation of Lufthansa employees on the inside by the time-honored method of inducing them to gamble, pressuring them to pay up, loaning them money at exorbitant rates and, finally, pointing out that they could cancel their debts by helping out with the heist...
...principle it is a good idea to have constitutional restrictions on expenditures, but it is the burden of those who advocate this method to come up with a way of achieving it that will stand careful scrutiny...
Tour skiing is safer than downhill skiing and far easier to learn. Once the novice has mastered the gliding-stride motion (not unlike Groucho Marx's fluid slouch), the other skills, like the herringbone (a method of walking uphill) and the telemark (a way of turning) can be learned by simple trial and error...
...proper method of correcting this ignominious misnomer is to hold a rename the library contest. Some entries...
State legislators across the country are now clamoring for a convention to propose a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced federal budget, and liberal oracles everywhere warn it would entangle the branches of government in a messy constitutional conflict. The convention method of amending the Constitution has remained unused ever since the Philadelphia convention wrote it in for the states to use against a Congress that ignored the nation's will. Under the process used for each of the 26 amendments now on the books, Congress proposed the change and three-fourths of the states ratified it. Article...