Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flap over evidence treatment at the FBI's Crime lab, Cole says the prosecution's strategy should remain essentially unchanged. Once significant alteration: Prosecutors have dropped as a witness David Williams, the head of the FBI explosives unit who concluded the blast was caused by an ammonium nitrate-fuel oil bomb. A Justice Department report earlier this week said Williams made scientifically unsound conclusions in favor of the prosecution. Because prosecutors had anticipated problems with the crime lab evidence, they made arrangements late last year to call British explosive expert Linda Jones to confirm the FBI's report. "Prosecutors...
...while many who burn the midnight oil try to add dance-club fever to pass the monotony of their work, the graveyard shift is not all about musical taste...
...reports. So the Democratic National Committee buried the money trail, handing out lists of needy state parties so donors could funnel their money where it would be harder to find. In return, D.N.C. chairman Don Fowler and his staff made sure that assorted Chinese businessmen and now oil financiers got a hearing from the NSC, a photo with the First Lady, or a spot on the President's schedule...
...story of Roger Tamraz, a U.S. citizen of Lebanese descent born in Cairo, as told in the Wall Street Journal last week, suggests just how far Democratic officials were willing to go to hide a quid and deliver a quo. Tamraz wanted to build his billion-dollar oil pipeline through the warring nations of Armenia and Azerbaijan. He sought U.S. blessing for the project to help secure financing, and with the aid of some State Department officials, arranged a meeting in June 1995 with NSC Central Asia specialist Sheila Heslin. She was not impressed with his pitch and didn...
...This 1887 oil painting has adorned 30,000 Pennsylvania plates since 1995, generating $450,000 for the state's historical and museum commission. Police, however, were at sea in its churning waters. The plate was discontinued in February...