Word: straws
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Rudenstine made no commitments- or even an explicit statement-when asked repeatedly about the future of the University's policy on third-party purchasing, known as buying through a "straw." For the Allston purchases, Harvard officials hired Beal Cos., a prominent real estate developer in Boston, to purchase the 14 parcels for them during the seven-year period...
Rowe added Saturday night that regardless of the President's policies, no straw purchasing is currently taking place in Allston...
...writing a story called "Children of War" for TIME, I visited the Khao I Dang refugee camp in southeast Thailand, across the border from Cambodia. There 40,000 Cambodians who had fled Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge awaited resettlement. They had made the camp into a village consisting of straw-roofed huts, gardens and wats...
What delights the White House is that so much of what went wrong in last year's Democratic campaign is almost impossible to reduce to TV sound bites. And what frustrates Thompson is that anything about illegal foreign cash and straw donors that can be condensed has already been splashed on U.S. front pages since October. Virtually every hot document the White House turned over to him has been deliberately released to reporters by the Administration...
...begin hearings next month. Several of his key witnesses have already left the country. These 19, Senate aides say, are smaller fish, mostly monks and nuns at a Buddhist temple who gave the DNC money after a notorious fund-raiser attended by Gore. Investigators are betting they acted as "straw donors" (foils) for wealthy foreign contributors. Meanwhile, some big fish may be falling. Rep. Gerald Solomon, chairman of the House Rules Committee, said Wednesday he has government intercepts that indicate John Huang "committed economic espionage" by passing trade secrets to his former employer, Lippo Group, while he worked...