Word: trails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington is now hot on the trail of Wall Street's insider traders, some of whom have sent their ill-gotten gains to Zurich. In 1982 Switzerland signed a special accord with the U.S. in which it agreed to cooperate in the investigation of these stock-swindle cases, and next year the Swiss parliament intends to make insider trading a crime...
...Jacinto is the same place where former St. John's great Walter Berry fined-tuned his grades as well as his inside game. The same Walter Berry who is now playing for the Portland Trail Blazers...
...competitive edge. But though he remains among the top tier of Democrats, he has had trouble capitalizing on the crisis or convincing undecided voters that he has the heft to handle troubled times. Despite his lengthy legislative scorecard and his earnest doggedness both in Congress and on the campaign trail, he remains a dispassionate figure who has sparked little excitement. On the stump in Iowa, he tells voters that they must choose the person they trust the most. But even as he works to personalize the race with a what-a-nice-young-man appeal, Gephardt remains the candidate...
...road that leads to Gaza, a gaudily lettered arch greets travelers with the word WELCOME. But the sights hardly beckon. Watchful Israeli soldiers stand guard as men in gallabiyas ply the road on two-wheeled donkey carts and women in white gauze veils trail their robes through the dust. Melons are sold amid reeking garbage. Rusting wreckage litters the roadsides. The stench of rot and waste is unescapable. Gaza looks like what it is: the last refuge of the dispossessed...
...three Senate Republicans who signed the majority report are Rudman, Maine's coolly independent William Cohen and Virginia's Paul Trible, whose unrelenting pursuit of the arms-money trail surprised Administration loyalists. But other Republicans felt the final product was, in Utah Senator Orrin Hatch's words, "too political." Claims Henry Hyde, the fiercely partisan Illinois Congressman: "The majority report is polemical in the extreme. It is impossible to sign." He argues that the report ignores what he believes was the true intent of the arms deals: to seek better relations with Iran. The majority report, in fact, cites various...