Word: ran
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...Republican firm. "I thought of myself as a Republican for six or seven months, no longer," he says. He quickly found more stimulating work as an assistant to a Democratic activist who specialized in criminal and negligence cases. In 1970, just two years out of law school, Biden ran successfully as an underdog candidate for the local county council. Even before he took his council seat, he was planning his next campaign, against Caleb Boggs, Delaware's Republican Senator who was generally regarded as unbeatable. After two years of campaigning, Biden upset Boggs by just 1% of the vote...
...invite the Soviets to share the responsibility, and thus the rewards, of controlling the Persian Gulf would amount to the most astonishing voluntary abdication of a Western position in the postwar world. At least when the British ran out on their responsibilities in the gulf in 1971, they turned it over to an ally. But now Pell and others would like to offer the Soviets, who have been lusting for the gulf since Romanov days, a share of it. Gratis...
...shaman, any fool who claimed, say, he could bend spoons with his mind. But Rinpoche was not a charlatan. By all accounts, he was brilliant, he was the real thing. The easiest conclusion to draw, looking from the outside in, is that he was an astute businessman. His devotees ran to the upper middle class, white, with impressive academic credentials. They dressed like Dharma bums in the beginning, but soon the teacher had them shaved, suited and cravated. If they did not exactly turn their pockets inside out for their teacher -- and some did -- they made good fund raisers. Moreover...
...still on her desk and were about to be discovered. In panic, she called North at a hotel and whispered for him to return to the office. "I was very emotional at the time," she told the committee. Hall frantically stuffed some of the papers into her boots. She ran upstairs in the two-floor suite to get Earl's help in pulling copies of computer messages from the files. He started to put them in his jacket. "No, you shouldn't have to do this," Hall recounted. "I'll do it." Then she slipped the papers between her back...
Subsequent investigations by the Department of Defense Inspector General's office and the Justice Department established that Eatsco had skimmed some $8 million in unearned profits from the weapons sales. The company paid over $3 million in penalties, and Clines, who ran Eatsco, paid $110,000 in fines for filing false invoices with the Pentagon. Secord and Shackley, who Wilson claims were silent partners in the affair, denied any involvement with Eatsco. Secord, then Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, was briefly suspended from duty in 1982; he was reinstated but soon resigned his commission because...