Word: stings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...telling friends that "no one is cowed or bowed" at ADM and publicly pledging the company's cooperation with the FBI. The scrutiny of ADM has prompted a sense of poetic justice in some members of the Chicago Board of Trade, as ADM helped FBI agents launch a 1989 sting that led to several commodities traders being convicted on fraud and racketeering. "There is a lot of snickering because ADM has finally got its ass caught in a sling," said a board member of the Board of Trade. "There is just this whole sweet irony of their getting stung after...
NUCLEAR BLACK-MARKET STING...
Capping a yearlong sting operation, federal authorities in New York arrested three men on charges of storing nearly 8 tons of zirconium -- a material used to make nuclear weapons -- and trying to sell part of it to undercover agents posing as Iraqi-backed arms merchants. The ease with which the zirconium was obtained should serve as a dramatic "wake-up call," said...
James W. Perkins '45 delivered a homily entitled "Death, Where is Thy Sting...
...Bulls Sting Hornets...