Word: rigging
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...plea bargain turned ADM (1995 sales: $12.7 billion) into an informer for the government. In exchange for immunity, company officials agreed to become witnesses against other firms under investigation for conspiring with ADM to rig prices in the $1.2 billion citric-acid market...
...friends spurned by their husbands in middle age who plan a madcap payback. But for all the one-liners and pratfalls, the movie is more than satiric fluff. Like Thelma & Louise, which five years ago set audiences to cheering when Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon blasted a trucker's rig to smithereens--or last year's Waiting to Exhale, which had women yelling "Go, girl!" at the screen--The First Wives Club is dipping into a bottomless well of shared female rage. It is rage at the imbalance of power that allows men to use up the best years...
...responsible for the continued killing of thousands of civilians, including children. Is this the democrat the West wants? A shift of power to any other candidate would at least add credibility to the democratic mechanism. The worst thing the West can do is give Yeltsin the green light to rig the elections or ignore them. OLLI LAGERSPETZ Swansea, Wales...
...Last September, just north of the border, a Mexican driver was killed when a spark caused by carelessness ignited his tanker filled with jet fuel. Texas officials recently investigated a sulfuric-acid spill in Laredo involving a 16-year-old driver with no insurance and no shipping papers. His rig had faulty brakes; nine of its 18 tires were bald. It is not uncommon to find several Mexican truck drivers carrying insurance cards with the same name and policy number...
After cleverly engineering a string of 34 straw-poll victories throughout this year, Gramm hit a speed bump in Florida last Saturday at the single such contest he couldn't rig. His second-place showing (seven points behind Dole and only three ahead of Lamar Alexander) failed to meet his own hyped expectations and dents his overall strategy, which presumes his winning handily across the South. Now a Connally-size meltdown, while unlikely, cannot be ruled...