Word: tracee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dragged its heels unconscionably on doing so. Iraq initially proposed to set up a puppet state in Kuwait, but swiftly abandoned even that pretense. Baghdad now proclaims the emirate to be a province of Iraq and is trying, by such means as destruction of records, to obliterate any trace that there ever was a nation named Kuwait...
Given a choice between submitting to root-canal work and reading a book about the 1988 presidential campaign, many people might opt for the former. Who, after all, truly yearns to review the speeches of Jack Kemp? To trace once more the pitiful downfall of Gary Hart? To recall the days when George Bush acted more like Jack the Ripper than Mr. Kind-and-Gentle? Or to relive the moment when Michael Dukakis booted the question about a hypothetical rape of his wife Kitty and kissed his chances goodbye...
...whatever the directorial interpretation, Betrayal remains a riveting play. This is largely due to the regressive action; Pinter begins at the end and shifts backwards through time. The nine scenes in Betrayal trace the collapse, decline, and eventual establishment of an affair between Jerry (John Ducey) and Emma (Reid Cottingham), the wife of Jerry's best friend Robert (Glenn Kiser...
...object, however, to the total lack of oversight by the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) over such investments. Harvard Management Corporation (HMC), which controls the University's investments, has sunk more than a billion dollars into high-risk, high-yield "private placement" investments, all without a trace of accountability to anyone below the Harvard Corporation...
While the Genovese family is New York based, its influence has few geographical boundaries. Smaller crime families from Cleveland to Pittsburgh to New England answer to the Genovese gang in various ways. So did Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa of Detroit, who vanished without a trace in 1975 after pledging to boot his Mob sponsors out of the union. At the time, the family was emerging as a global trader of sorts, in one case allegedly trying to pass $950 million in counterfeit and stolen securities to the Vatican's bank in Rome. In a recent operation, the family shipped counterfeit...