Word: scams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officials in Washington and Moscow fear that poorly policed borders and potentially staggering profits provide both opportunity and incentive for illegal trading. Many hustlers in Moscow brazenly offer to sell small quantities of what they claim to be spent nuclear fuel stolen from production facilities. Often the ingredients these scam artists pass off as "samples" are benign substances, like cesium 137 and low-enriched uranium, that cannot be used to make a bomb. But no one doubts that a market for the real stuff exists. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, membership in the world's nuclear club requires...
...first-year facebook scam game may now include a whole new set of prospects: the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
...medicinal marijuana argument is a scam," Lapey said. "Medicinal marijuana is the Joe Camel of the marijuana industry," she added later...
Guare has done his best to enlarge on the incident, to provide explanations for the scam's origins and temporary success as well as some ruminations about its larger meaning. He has also provided notable roles for Paul's chief victims: Channing as a woman relishing the drama of the intrusion and Donald Sutherland as her art dealer husband, one of those human vacuum pumps who sucks all the air out of any room he inhabits. As Paul, Will Smith is needy, daring, insinuating...
When a U.S. Attorney announced that a second grand jury would be digging deeper into House Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski's involvement in a stamps-for-cash scam, it seemed like bad news for Rosty. In fact, it appears his defense team couldn't be happier: sources in the U.S. Attorney's office had promised an October indictment, but now it's unclear when an indictment will come. Furthermore, former House postmaster Robert Rota has changed his story, and some of his testimony is in question...