Word: shams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government has filed a $1.1 billion fraud and racketeering suit to try to recover some of the money that Keating and his family are said to have taken out of Lincoln. Several class-action suits charging that Keating siphoned off millions to sham corporations in Switzerland, Panama and the Bahamas have been filed on behalf of 23,000 mainly elderly California bondholders. During the two years that Lincoln stayed open after the five Senators met with San Francisco bank examiners who wanted to shut Lincoln in April 1987, the cost of paying off the S & L's federally insured depositors...
KATE BUSH: THE SENSUAL WORLD (Columbia). Well, it does have a lonely-hearts love song about a computer. Otherwise, the histrionics are so heavy and the passion so sham on this record that it would be wiser just to press DELETE...
Moreover, the steady U.S. pressure is having its effect. So is Noriega's behavior. Leaders throughout the hemisphere have made clear their disdain for the Panamanian regime. Following the sham elections in May, many countries withdrew their ambassadors from Panama, and they have yet to send them back. "Noriega is dividing the Latin community over what to do about him, but everyone is upset with the situation," says a Latin leader. "Even the Cubans don't want him there...
...guerrillas have called the troop withdrawal a sham and say thousands of Vietnamese troops will remain, disguised as Cambodians...
...Foreign correspondents were warned to stop covering student activities, but few reporters took heed. Chinese television ceased live coverage from Tiananmen Square and began carrying statements from leaders expressing support for martial law. "Nobody takes the news broadcasts seriously these days," said an office secretary. "They are all a sham...