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...with the Champions Shop, which sells items with the Harvard insignia to eager tourists, parents and students. Insignia merchandise sold well even before Murphy created the Champions Shop. The shop's sales figures for the past year promise to be even better and should take some of the sting out of losses sustained by the notoriously unprofitable textbook department...
...with the Champions Shop, which sells items with the Harvard insignia to eager tourists, parents and students. Insignia merchandise sold well even before Murphy created the Champions Shop. The shop's sales figures for the past year promise to be even better and should take some of the sting out of losses sustained by the notoriously unprofitable textbook department...
That still leaves plenty of claims that ring true to a computer program only to prove false upon human investigation. The growing practice of "ghost riders," for instance, involves people who claim to have sustained injuries while riding public transportation. In a three-year sting operation mounted by the New Jersey Insurance Department, 110 people tried to profit from 10 faked bus crashes. Every "crash" produced fraudulent claims of between...
...each sting, 12 to 15 department agents were planted on a bus. Cameras then photographed the "jump ons," who boarded after the accident, filled out injury forms and called for ambulances. Many claimants were lured into the scam by "runners," working for doctors and lawyers. Some claimants never even bothered to enter the bus. They simply filed claims later...
WASHINGTON -- To take some of the sting out of military-base closings, President Bill Clinton has announced that the Defense Department will pay for cleaning up environmental pollution at all the bases that are being shut down. The President didn't put a price tag on this, but Pentagon insiders say the cost of this gesture will be enormous -- more than $20 billion over the next decade. Nine of the bases slated for closure are Superfund toxic-waste sites, meaning they are among the most contaminated areas in America. There are also more than 500 less polluted sites on these...