Word: person
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...hide their real ownership from Government agencies like the Internal Revenue Service. In this case, Princeton/Newport was allegedly parking stocks at Drexel so that the New Jersey firm could claim short-term tax losses on the sale. The laws against racketeering, which involves repeated crimes carried out by a person or a business, have traditionally been used against the Mafia. Bringing racketeering charges against stock swindlers is an aggressive new tactic in the war on white-collar crime...
...incidence of bank fraud rises, law-enforcement officials are struggling to respond. The Justice Department has set up a 50-member squad of attorneys, FBI agents and IRS investigators in Dallas to dig up evidence, while a 25-person FBI team is working out of the U.S. courthouse building in Houston. In Los Angeles, 50 FBI agents and ten prosecutors are looking into 273 cases, 140 of which involve losses greater than $250,000. "We have more cases than we know what to do with," says U.S. Attorney Robert Bonner in Los Angeles. "We are stretched thin." If what investigators...
...Nora was her own person, and from the very beginning Maddox lets the reader know that it is her biography, not Joyce's, by dispelling many of the myths about her. She could cook, although legend had it that she couldn't, but the Joyces ate in restaurants because Joyce liked to go out a lot. She was not illiterate; although she never could get all the way through Ulysses (neither could W.B. Yeats), Nora read and memorized many of his poems...
...which the action of Ulysses takes place, on June 16, 1904, speaks volumes of his need for her. That was the day he first fell in love with her. But while Joyce and his art was changed dramatically by her, she still remained the same humble person she had always been...
ALTHOUGH Barnacle is an intriguing person on her own, she is most fascinating in the way she affects Joyce and his art. His dependence on her--to take care of him, to keep him sexually satisfied and, most importantly, to keep him anchored firmly in reality--comes out clearly in the biography...