Word: spun
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...crooks needed to separate the money from the crime. In the old days, if you sold cocaine in Spain, you wound up with pesetas, which pointed to where the crime was committed. So you prewashed your loot into, say, German marks, and from there moved into dollars. You spun that money in and out of secret bank accounts (to obliterate the paper trail) and across borders, and eventually brought the money out the other end disguised as legitimate income. Done properly, it's next to impossible to tie your income to your crime. But these guys had $97 million...
...most nights of the year, this stretch of country road is only a flat place in the dark. But for a few nights in late summer 2003, it blazed in neon, smelled like smoked sausage, spun sugar and blue-ribbon hogs and rang with screams of people who had bought a ticket to be scared. They rode the Tilt-A-Whirl, browsed tents of prizewinning fruit preserves and lined up for the cute-baby contest, and if there is such a thing as a time machine on earth, it must be powered by the Ferris wheel at the Wirt County...
...life of those students uncomfortable with mandated single-sex housing. Additionally, the UC advocated reduced textbook costs for students on financial aid and encouraged the College to coordinate online resources to bring coursepack costs under control. The year ended with a final display of political fireworks. After the UC spun off its social programming functions to an independent, University Hall-funded College Events Board mid-semester, it had to consider what to do with its third wheel, the Campus Life Committee (CLC). Suggestions ranged from replacing CLC with a Educational Advoacy Committee, to creating a third UC committee dedicated outreach...
...another CEO, William Perez, who lasted only 13 months. Net income rose 21%, to $1.4 billion, for the full year ending Feb. 28, but Nike's stock has slipped 5.3% in 2006. Adidas, which nearly imploded in the 1990s, is working through another restructuring. The company last year spun out its ill-fitting Salomon ski business and bought Reebok, the perennial No. 3 brand. Adidas profits rose 25%, to $537 million, over the past year, but its stock has slipped 1.4% off its 52-week high of 175 euros ($223) a share in late January...
...attention-crazed fanatic based in Topeka, Kans., who has logged 15 years as a kind of paleo-fundamentalist, gay-baiting performance artist. Last spring Phelps grabbed the already troubling line, taken by preachers such as Pat Robertson, that disasters like 9/11 were God's punishment for American sins, and spun it past the boundary of the outrageous by having his followers crash military funerals with signs like GOD LOVES IEDS (improvised explosive devices) and scream to grieving parents that their children were in hell as divine punishment for what Phelps calls the nation's "enabling" and "harboring" of homosexuals...