Word: unraveler
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...operation known as Operation Greenpalm helped unravel Miami's fiscal madness. The sting uncovered the worst-kept local secret--that to do business with City Hall it is sometimes necessary to offer a "retainer," which non-Miamians might call a bribe. "It was 'Pay me as a consultant, and we'll get you the contract,'" says Assistant U.S. Attorney Wilfredo Fernandez. The Greenpalm began when former Miami finance chief Manohar Surana, caught soliciting a bribe from Unisys in connection with its bid for a $20 million city contract, agreed to wear a microphone for the FBI. Surana caught then city...
...months. The copies the students turned out were so successful that local bars and businesses at first accepted them without question. They were finally detected in a bar last May and traced to a copier in the printing office of Columbia's Journalism school. The scheme ultimately began to unravel when Secret Service agents caught a man spending some of the phony bills and persuaded him to cooperate. Court documents show that the four-man forgery ring was not satisfied with the small time and was about to expand its operations to Chicago and Washington. The scheme began when Columbia...
...signed by the previous Israeli government to pull back its troops and hand over most of the city to the Palestinian Authority, the redeployment has been delayed time and again for seven months while Israel seeks ways to provide sufficient "security" for the settlers. As Palestinian frustration threatens to unravel the peace, many Israelis fear the nation's fate is being held hostage by a tiny band of religious extremists. Even if Israeli forces in the city move back soon, the settlers' uncompromising zeal could touch off confrontations that might consume any hope of permanent peace...
...into Democratic coffers. Unfortunately for the GOP, Dole's persistent questioning of the Clinton Administration's ethical standards probably won't resonate with voters come election day. "Even the developing Democratic fundraising scandal won't effect voting, because people don't understand it," notes Edwards. "It's tough to unravel, and most papers bury the story on page five." -- Terence Nelan
...redoubled because he encourages his 17-year-old daughter, who also knows Tae Kwon Do, to help out. The neighborhood's young black drug dealers are pragmatists, eager to learn the fighting discipline for self-protection when they are sent to prison. Devlin, an idealist trying shakily not to unravel, commits too much of himself. And despite his efforts, gunfire sweeps through the streets. People...