Word: straws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...determined the markup on the arms, and who set up the Swiss contra ! account? The Israelis contend they neither set the price for the weapons nor managed the accounts. According to Israeli sources, an Iranian straw company in Switzerland deposited its payment for the arms in an escrow account just before the shipment was made. After the delivery, the Iranians reimbursed the Israelis through a Swiss bank for the book value of the cargo, plus generous insurance and freight charges. The Israelis, in turn, used part of these funds to pay the U.S., depositing its payment into a Swiss account...
...attending a church lecture by an off-duty policeman on the dangers of drug abuse, the junior-high-school student knew what she had to do. Several hours later she searched her house, collecting the incriminating evidence. "The talk she heard the night before," said a lawman, "was the straw that broke the camel's back." Deanna's parents were charged with one count each of coke possession. Their daughter was placed in a shelter for abused and abandoned children...
...speaker, Cuomo is a modern master of the ancient art of rhetoric. His repertoire includes sarcasm, mimicry, hyperbole, irony, parables, analogies and allusions. He poses questions and answers them, sets up philosophical straw men and knocks them down. He begins slowly and gains momentum; he races up the hill of one sentence and coasts down another. His timing is that of a stand-up comic. His voice can be as soothing as a late-night disk jockey's or as rumbling as an Old Testament prophet's. He can, on occasion, be shrill, edging toward the sanctimonious. But always...
Life is slowly returning to the town of Tenancingo. The grade school has reopened its doors, as have the youth club and the carpentry workshop. Once again women call to one another from window ledges as they sit weaving palm straw into strips for hats and bags. Two weeks ago, bus service resumed to the capital city of San Salvador, 16 miles away, and last week running water started to flow again. Next month, if all goes according to plan, electricity will be restored. If Tenancingo's progress is modest, its ambition is not. The townspeople aim to make their...
...most coronary-bypass surgery, veins taken from a patient's leg must be deftly sewn to one or more of the heart's arteries, some no thicker than a straw. Last week a nine-member court-martial jury found that Commander Donal Billig, a Navy doctor and former chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital, had "wrongfully" performed that delicate operation. The result: two retired servicemen, Lieut. Colonel John Kas and Petty Officer Joe Estep, died in 1984 after Billig operated on them...