Word: operandi
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Jeremy is accosted one day in a café by an artist, Lady Henrietta, who pains nude men-not only quintessential nude men such as Michelangelo's David, but also and to great effect the average, flawed specimens that are commonly found in everyday life. Her modus operandi consists of approaching strage men and offering them sums of money to pose for her...in her home studio...
...suspects are using the same modus operandi as in the fall, Rooney said, and Asians remain their "preferred targets...
...writers prefer to leave the real talking to themselves and not their sources. In what is the writers' deceptive modus operandi, Araton and Bondy will extrapolate from quoted statements and assert their own viewpoints and characterizations, often implying the quoted individual is saying what the writers believe...
...victims not escaped last week. Running down a Milwaukee street with a pair of handcuffs dangling from one wrist, Tracy Edwards, 32, told police that Dahmer was trying to kill him. Dahmer was arrested without a struggle. He has since expressed remorse and briefed the authorities on his modus operandi: he usually lured men from shopping malls and bars by offering them money to pose for pictures; after drugging them, he would strangle his victims and dismember the bodies. Often he boiled their heads to remove the flesh, and in at least one case, say authorities, he had anal...
B.C.C.I.'s modus operandi for gaining political influence was as simple as its banking methods were convoluted. The formula: money. Abedi found his opening wedge in the U.S. in late 1976, when he looked to Georgia, home of then President-elect Carter, and the rotund personage of Carter confidant Bert Lance. In deep financial trouble with his National Bank of Georgia and beset by regulators for past banking indiscretions, Lance was all too glad to be put on B.C.C.I.'s payroll as a $100,000-a-year consultant. Abedi declared Lance was his "unofficial ambassador . . . brought in to give...