Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Things don't always move swiftly at the welfare department, though. Only last week did the state's attorney take the case to court, getting a 505-count indictment against Otis for the largest welfare fraud in Illinois history. How did she get away with her scheme for so long? According to investigators, she was successful because she knew welfare law cold and could cite chapter and verse to case workers who questioned her applications...
Weizman's move stemmed from an episode involving Israeli forces on the West Bank who were overzealously cracking down to discourage Arab protests against the incursion into South Lebanon. At Beit Jala, a village five miles south of Jerusalem, a group of soldiers entered the local Arab high school, ordered the students to shut their windows and then tossed cans of U.S.-made antiriot gas into some rooms. A number of students leaped out of second-floor windows to escape the choking gas; ten were hospitalized with various fractures, some crippling...
This would not solve the immediate problem of finding an inexpensive and efficient way to move Alaskan oil to markets where it is really needed. Many plans have been considered, especially because Alaskan oil shipped through the Panama Canal is even costlier than OPEC oil on the East Coast. One idea is a three-way trade: Alaskan oil could be shipped to Japan, replacing OPEC oil that would then be sent to the U.S. East Coast. Problem: the export of Alaskan crude would raise a political storm...
...Affirmed responded with intelligence and alertness to each challenge during the race. When Believe It began to challenge on the outside, Affirmed moved away on his own, sweeping into the lead with a burst of speed. Said Cauthen later: "I didn't have to make a move at all. He saw Believe It come alongside and took care of things himself...
...escape and retirement to the good, respectable life. The major slip-up occurred when the man hired to clean up the evidence at the farmhouse did not get there before the police. An alert detective rightly interpreted the gang's parting warning to their victims ("Don't move for half an hour") as meaning that the robbers and the unwieldy sacks of cash were concealed in the vicinity...