Word: scam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...biggest scam in this regard is the concept of rent control, under which many apartment buildings in Cambridge are regulated. As has happened in many other cities, many rent-controlled apartments in the Cambridge area have gone, not to those who needed them the most, but to those who could most easily afford them. Such abuses have forced many low-income families, those that would otherwise benefit from rent control, out on the streets...
...moment came in May of 1980. Bush was charging ahead without a mathematical chance of overtaking Reagan. With the candidate on the road, Baker virtually yanked him from the race by confirming to reporters that the Bush effort in California was a scam. Bush was furious and convened a senior staff meeting in Houston. The candidate, like all candidates, could not have cared less about the math. He wanted to continue. Baker had a different concern. He knew Reagan would be "terminally ticked off" if Bush pressed ahead into California, Reagan's home state...
...probably noticed the forlorn activist by the T-station who has launched a solitary hunger strike to free Lyndon LaRouche. LaRouche, a former communist turned right-wing fanatic, is now serving a 15 year sentence for conspiracy, mail fraud and tax evasion. The convictions stem from a credit card scam in which LaRouche's operatives stole more than $2 million...
...Bulger's former law partner, Thomas Finnerty, received $500,000 from real-estate developer Harold Brown for help in securing government permits on the State Street project. Two years later, Brown sued Finnerty, claiming the payment was part of an influence-peddling scam involving the Senate President...
Reagan had an ability to console the inconsolable. Witness his speech after the Challenger explosion. He could also explain away the inexplicable. Remember Bitburg? The Iran-Contra scam...