Word: stings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After Watergate and Abscam, the FBI sting operation that sent seven members of Congress to prison by 1981 for taking bribes to obtain various favors, Congress acted several times to clean up its practices. But each reform opened up fresh avenues of opportunity. New limits on political contributions from individuals led to the rise of political-action committees, which flooded Congress with money on behalf of organized special interests. "The system itself has become a form of legalized corruption," complains Fred Wertheimer, president of the public-interest lobbying group Common Cause...
...town in the 1960s, the impact was ambiguous. Blacks welcomed expanded job opportunities and an end to humiliating reminders of where -- quite literally -- they stood: they were now allowed to sit down in white restaurants. But integration also meant that the nurturing institutions blacks had created to take the sting out of segregation would become moribund...
...POLITICAL INTEREST: Sticks That Could Sting Haiti...
...eating a deadly blowfish. Marge sang Blanche Dubois in the musical O Streetcar! Lisa created her own talking doll, mastered the saxophone and the Talmud, was a Junior Miss Springfield, uncovered political corruption and saved the Republic. Bart adopted an elephant, fell down a well and was rescued by Sting, and was tried for murdering Principal Skinner. Maggie had her first word voiced for her by Elizabeth Taylor...
...Recent sting operations have slowed the Silicon Valley heists a bit but have shown few signs of stopping them. In campaigns with code names such as "Operation Gray Chip" and "Winter Sting," law-enforcement officers rounded up 43 suspects in January, including 13 who were caught while trying to steal more than $1 million worth of computer parts from an electronics warehouse. Officers seized a total of $2 million worth of chips and other computer equipment, together with nylon masks, duct tape, ropes, gloves, walkie-talkies and five loaded guns. But while 20 suspects were swiftly tried and convicted, most...