Word: passport
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...powerful individuals gliding around, not having to worry about elections." Twice, Mandelson had to resign from Blair's government because of perceptions that he traded favors and influence with major Labour Party donors, although he was formally cleared in 2001 of using improper influence to obtain a British passport for the wealthy Indian businessman Srichand Hinduja. Yet Mandelson's pro-European views are long-established and sincere, according to people who know him well. Denis MacShane, recently sacked as Britain's Europe Minister, says: "Peter is a staunch, convinced European. He wants a successful Europe; he wants a social model...
...main characters dealt with terminal disease, Dean was plowing through the British news of 1981 - a touchstone year of royal romance, race riots and Thatcherism in full cry - when she was sidetracked by a brief item on the death of Bobby Sands. Using lack of knowledge as her passport, Dean spent the next nine months flitting between Provence and Belfast to record the memories of republican and loyalist paramilitaries, British soldiers, prison officers and the Catholic and Protestant residents of Belfast's working-class housing estates. The hundreds of hours of tapes she amassed would have made a startling documentary...
...conclusion is disappointing because Vargas Llosa—who carries a Spanish passport and resides in northern California—designs a utopian master plan from afar, instead of clearly delineating the practical steps toward progress that Latin America so desperately needs. The theoretical nature of his proposals implies a lack of urgency that contrasts sharply with the book’s bleak depiction of the continent’s health...
...murder of Banco Ambrosio chief Roberto Calvi; in Rome. Calvi, known as "God's banker" because of his close ties with the Vatican, traveled to London when his bank was near collapse and was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London, his pockets stuffed with bricks, rocks, a false passport and several thousand dollars in cash. A London coroner originally ruled the death a suicide, but in 2003, Italian prosecutors issued a report concluding that Calvi had been murdered by the Mafia...
...officer responded to 1 Western Ave. in Allston because of the theft of a black computer bag, with contents worth a collective $3,850. The stolen items included a black IBM laptop computer, a calculator, a passport, and a checkbook...