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Moro instructed the agent to limit the size of his deposits to amounts smaller than $10,000. This laundering ploy enables criminals to evade laws that require banks to report cash deposits of $10,000 or more to the Federal Government. Checks drawn against those funds were deposited in banks around the world by Moro's staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cash Cleaners | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

What is ominous is that Reebok ads are remarkably successful at achieving what all advertising attempts to do, namely associating a product with an identity. It's the old ploy--eat Wheaties and you'll be as bouncy and healthy as Mary Lou Retton--but it has an added twist. The U.B.U. ad campaigns refers not just to appearance or to health or to product quality. It refers to how we see ourselves as Americans. And by using sneaker. The campaign emphasized the crucially American dialectic of individual versus community. We can all wear the same sneakers, the ads tell...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Stomping on Individualism | 10/11/1988 | See Source »

Neither candidate, however, has stepped forward with a water policy to address this country's problems. Vice President George Bush has had a field day maligning Boston Harbor; but this is more a media ploy than a strong commitment to preserve the existence and qualityir of water resources. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis has promised to put a Secretary of the Environment in his cabinet, but water issues have certainly not been among his priorities...

Author: By Charles N.W. Keckler, | Title: Water on the Rocks | 10/8/1988 | See Source »

...improve relations with Moscow. The ten members of Israel's inner Cabinet are expected to make a decision within the next few weeks. Another consideration: some Israeli politicians fear that if a satellite is launched before the country's November elections, the public will consider the move a cynical ploy to win votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Up, Up, Up and Away | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

Democratic National Chairman Paul Kirk had created the opening. Kirk decided that a crafty way to debunk the charge that Democrats promise everything to everyone was to shrink the normally gargantuan party platform to a brief statement of principles. That seemed logical enough, but the ploy reinforced the claim by George Bush that Michael Dukakis is a "Stealth candidate" who ducks specific positions. So when Republican drafters went to work, they produced a 30,000-word monster, nearly ten times the size of its Democratic counterpart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans:Is Bigger Better? | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

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