Word: tip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...crime is hugely profitable and very difficult to detect," says Bucks County prosecutor Carolyn Oliver. "Wills' million-dollar ring is the biggest we've ever seen here, but it's just the tip of the iceberg." Salvage yards and body shops across the country will pay illegal suppliers like Wills $5,000 total for the front end, back clip, engine, radio, doors and bumpers of a typical late-model car. The parts are then resold to insurance companies, marked up 200% to 300% of their black-market cost. Last year 40,000 cars were stolen in the Philadelphia area alone...
...giant -- and began his downfall. From the start, there were rumors that kickbacks had been paid to political parties in return for approving the deal. Gardini soon found himself in conflict with Cagliari, ENI's ambitious chief. Each man controlled 40% of Enimont, but the Ferruzzi boss tried to tip the balance by having friends purchase a majority of the outstanding 20% stock. In the end Cagliari prevailed, and in November 1990 ENI bought out Gardini's stake at an apparently politically sanctioned inflated price...
After all, Thomas McLarty, President Clinton's centrist Chief of Staff, was the force behind her nomination. But Clinton should have realized that only a strong, if mild-mannered, liberal could tip the balance in the highly conservative high court...
Furth also noted that the most valuable thing stolen from the museum--a camera with an estimated value of between $4,000 and $6,000--had been recovered by Harvard police. In addition, Furth said, a tip from him led to the recovery of other stolen materials...
...found unconstitutional." Still, mass culture and some experts view violent sex offenders as irredeemable monsters. Rutgers University law professor emeritus Alexander D. Brooks thinks that longer sentences should reflect this. "To put men like this in institutions is rough on them," he says, "but you have to tip the scales in favor of women and children...