Word: ties
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...book recounts, Hill posed as the middleman for an Arab tycoon. He solves the Munch case by pretending to be a buyer for the wealthy J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, a role that allows him, as his work often does, to accessorize lavishly: seersucker suit, big bow tie, bigger Mercedes. It also requires him to steep himself in Scream scholarship. To ensure that con men would not try to fool him with a counterfeit version, he even memorized the pattern of wax droplets left on the work when Munch blew out a candle one night...
...then as chairman, in March. New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed civil fraud charges in May, accusing Greenberg of orchestrating "sham transactions" that hid losses and inflated AIG's net worth. Just last week he resigned from AIG's board, ending his last official tie to the company--the same week two executives at General Re, a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway that did business with AIG, pleaded guilty to civil fraud charges that name Greenberg as a co-conspirator...
...Invitational was a non-league match—the loss to Brown marked the league opener for the Crimson. Harvard rebounded to defeat the Bears in Providence later in the season, but Brown took the second-seed at Northerns over the Crimson due to a tie-breaker...
...that was the side of Welch the media saw—the poised, suit-wearing, press-conference Welch who fielded queries after every win, loss, and tie. The Welch who smiled, even when asked why his team had lost in the first round of the last three NCAA tournaments, even when asked about his team’s ever-growing streak of Beanpot losses...
...this, the Bright Hockey Center crowd was cautiously excited. It was nice to tie the game, the fans seemed to say, but there was no need to jump to conclusions. This was Boston College, after...