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...evasion and directed him to pay $880,000 in fines and back taxes. Glistrup's chief crime: swindling the state out of more than $1 million by exploiting tax loopholes in a scheme so labyrinthine that it took a team of investigators nearly three years to unravel...
...upon absurdity. Gandhi defeated the British raj with a contradiction: nonviolent resistance. In 1955 a weary black woman in Montgomery. Ala., Rosa Parks, refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white man; at that instant, three centuries of America's racial tragedy began slowly to unravel...
Quincy allowed the lethargic Leverett gridders only one first down the entire afternoon, but couldn't unravel its own punchless offense in the turnover-marred debacle. Don Bodener earned the plaudits of the Quincy faithful, intercepting a key Leverett sling while also directing Q-House's offensive traffic...
Medicine. Through its myriad glands-and the hormones they secrete into the bloodstream-the endocrine system acts as a kind of bodily Mission Control, regulating a variety of functions, from growth to sexual activity. The three winners of the prize in physiology or medicine helped unravel the mysteries of that system-and pointed to dramatic new ways of controlling it when it goes awry...
Greis's game began to unravel after she took a hard luck double bogey on the second. She slapped her approach to the second into a bunker before a full Chevalier lip, and faced one of the trickiest shots since Walter Hagen chipped with a swizzle stick. She exploded out right on line but the ball took a bad kick and rolled through the green...