Word: sham
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Markowitz, now 35, publicly admitted last week that the shelters were part of a colossal sham that authorities called "the largest tax-fraud case ever prosecuted." In a federal district court in Manhattan, he pleaded guilty to conducting a scheme that enabled about 200 taxpayers to take illegal income tax deductions amounting to more than $445 million. Allen, Cavett and the other celebrities who participated in the shelters were named as unwitting victims of the fraud...
Your article about Goetz convinces me that our criminal-justice system is a sham. Goetz called himself a monster in his highly emotional original confession. This shows that he is an introspective man with a conscience, a man not accustomed to violence. I seriously doubt that his victims sat around assessing the morality of their conduct. Simie Maryles Van Dereck Provincetown, Mass...
...when they heard the foreign soldiers speaking Spanish. "I was asked if we were in the Mexican army," Sergeant Raul Ortiz, 35, a Viet Nam veteran, laughingly told TIME Correspondent David S. Jackson. The men who had seen action in the war were excited by the prospect of a sham battle. "These boys are pretty charged up," said Staff Sergeant Ray Sloane, 38, another Viet Nam veteran. White, who as Governor is commander in chief of the Texas National Guard, went down at the invitation of the Defense Department, which paid his way. "We've got our troops down here...
...counterculture could at certain moments seem part of the same rock 'n' roll, drawing their energy from one dark circuit. Grunts in Viet Nam sometimes carried their tape players into firefights. They would listen to the Grateful Dead, the Rolling Stones, Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs...
...forthcoming response from the Corporation is imperative. Our aim should be to insure full and fair representation on an untainted Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. Our hope should be to prevent the Advisory Committee from becoming a sham, or worse, a "mockery of a sham...