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...down 1.02 to 423.70 . . . Gold fell $1.20 to $385.50 on the Commodity Exchange in New York . . . The 30-year Treasury bond closed with a yield of 7.58 percent, down from 7.60 late Friday.parparparparDON'T FORGET to play the TIME Daily contest. The latest question: What's the best (worst) scam you've run into on the Internet or any electronic service? Put your favorites in the Business Folder, under "Netscams: Cybersurfers Beware." The poster of the most outrageous wins 10 free AOL hours PLUS a much-coveted TIME DAILY T-SHIRT.parparparpar
...hoboes" -- the term favored by the city's free-market hucksters -- who engage in a frenzy of buying and selling whatever goods they can lay their hands on. It is difficult to know whether these are the entrepreneurs who will eventually help rebuild the nation's economy or the scam artists who will pull it down. Perhaps they are a little of both. In any case, their impact has been undeniable: last year, by one estimate, hoboes moved 3 billion rubles' worth of goods and accounted for more than 10% of all officially registered trade...
...claiming a $5 investment will return participants a fat $60,000. In Missouri the info-highway patrol has targeted an unlicensed stockbroker who "trades" unregistered stocks on the information highway. More than two dozen additional cases are currently under investigation in seven different states.parparWhat's the best scam you've seen in cyberspace? Enter your submission in the folder, NETSCAMS: CYBER SURFERS BEWARE. The author of what is, in our humble opinion, the best, will win a much coveted TIME DAILY TSHIRT and 10 hours of free AOL. Who won the last contest? DASCAL, who knew that Camilla Parker Bowles...
...Rostenkowski took at least $50,000 in cash disguised as office purchases of stamps from the House post office -- the 17-count indictment outlined a collection of schemes that allegedly cost taxpayers more than $500,000. In the most damning part, it accused Rostenkowski of a kickback scam in which he put 14 people on his payroll for no-show jobs and such tasks as taking pictures at the weddings of his daughters and mowing the lawn at his summer home...
When Priscilla Nash Conger '44 went to "check out the guys," she didn't guzzle at the Grille or scam at the Spaghetti Club...