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When the U.S. stock market crashed a year ago, few investors were more shell- shocked than speculators who had bet on potential takeover stocks. Even by the sobering standards of Black Monday, their losses were devastating, and soon after the market collapse, as the takeover stage lay nearly deserted, investors began wondering whether the curtain had fallen on the best show in town...
Schrorr twice beat freshman Kio Lippitt in the hole to put MIT ahead, 2-1, just two minutes into the game. Max Ochoa's three goals and Schrorr's third tally left the shell-shocked Crimson trailing by six goals. After one period, MIT already had two players with hat tricks and the Crimson had barely threatened Engineer goalie Paul Wysocki...
...accused launderers knew their business well, authorities say. By rapidly shuffling ill-gotten cash through a kaleidoscopic array of banks and shell corporations around the world, BCCI allegedly obscured the source of the money, then returned untraceable, "clean" funds to narcotics kingpins. Said a senior U.S. Customs official: "It has given us a window into the world of international money laundering like nothing we've had before...
...late 1987 Moro had introduced the agents to a Panamanian branch of BCCI for their laundering operation. The agents collected cash from Medellin dealers in the U.S. and deposited it at domestic banks, then wired the money to the account of a newly created shell corporation in the BCCI branch in Panama. The agents then provided the Colombian traffickers with signed blank checks that could be cashed at most banks...
single: a shell with a single sculler...