Word: sidestep
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...make it for us.' " Typically, a Hell's Angel would pay a drug maker $25,000 for five pounds and advance him another $25,000 for the next five. "Now the guy owes the club," Eaton explained. The profits are handled illicitly. Said Eaton: "You try to sidestep the IRS, you get yourself money managers. Money is power. It buys policemen, judges...
...Botha last week unexpectedly offered a totally new proposal calling for a comprehensive conference aimed at resolving at once all the complex interlocking disputes over Namibia. The initiative has caused deep apprehension among other negotiating parties, who strongly suspect that the plan amounts to a South African ploy to sidestep U.N. supervision of Namibian independence. Caught by surprise, nervous State Department officials are unsure whether South Africa means to sabotage the peace effort or to advance it. Says one analyst: "We're keeping our fingers crossed...
...started out as a simple request for a simple solution to a simple problem. And it came from the one man at the University who should be able to sidestep the bureaucratic web that usually ensnares such pleas and transforms them into complicated matters...
...STARTED OUT as a simple request for a simple solution to a simple problem. And it came from the one man at the University who should be able to sidestep the bureaucratic web that usually ensnares such pleas and transforms them into complicated matters...
...tell what suspicious dealers may have mixed into the drugs. This time, however, his host insisted. "I think they began to think I was a cop," Tarver recalls. It was the beginning of an obsession that shattered Tarver's ten-year career. He stopped trying to sidestep the sniffing and began indulging during assignments, telling himself that this enabled him to gain the confidence of his targets and make bigger busts...