Word: secret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote by Central Committee members and alternates showed there is considerable opposition not only to Ligachev, but also to Politburo members closely linked to Gorbachev. Customarily such votes are unanimous, but the secret balloting used to chose deputies may have encouraged some to frankly express opposition to senior Kremlin figures...
Gardner says he arranged for the purchase at an inflated price of a vacation condominium that Paisley owned in Sun Valley, Idaho. Prosecutors say the payment -- about $149,000 for a condo later sold for $100,000 -- constituted a bribe. The money came from a secret $5 million fund that Gardner set up with Unisys money and devoted to bribery and illegal campaign contributions, as well as his personal use. He allegedly replenished the fund by charging the military for consulting work that was never performed -- which would mean that the Pentagon unknowingly supplied the money to corrupt...
...Irish cause and his aversion to cold-blooded violence. There is ice, too, in the veins of Britain's counterterrorists, and hypocrisy in the Republic of Ireland, whose constitution includes all of the Emerald Isle in its national territory. As one insider puts it, "It was an open secret that given its domestic economic woes, the last thing the republic's leadership wanted was to take on the burden of the six northern counties." This is a good story well told, with verve, pathos and unavoidable complexity...
...unexpectedly finds himself at loose ends for a couple of hours and wanders about through a soft spring drizzle, trying to recapture his past. He enters familiar ground: "The street, the house where I had lived, seemed blunt, modest in scale, simple; this deceptive simplicity composed their precious, mystical secret, the conviction of whose existence I had parlayed into a career, a message to sustain a writer book after book." His first attempts to put this secret into words were, he gently suggests, sometimes misunderstood: "My own style seemed to me a groping and elemental attempt to approximate the complexity...
...years, says Koskotas, payoffs went to the party, none to Papandreou himself. Then a pivotal event occurred. In October 1987, Koskotas traveled to Washington to attend a White House luncheon at which Vice President George Bush was the host. Secret Service agents, checking invitations, were surprised to discover that the guest from Greece was under a six-year-old federal indictment. They arrested Koskotas at his Washington hotel. The banker posted bail of $1 million. A few days later, to get home, Koskotas lied to Greek embassy officials and obtained a travel document...