Word: unravelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before he disappeared, Lewis told Wells Fargo investigators enough of what he had done to allow them to unravel the scheme. Meanwhile, separate investigations unearthed at least two other examples of banking abuse by Wells Fargo officials, raising questions about just how effective the bank's oversight practices are. So Cooley decided last week to assert that the nation's eleventh largest bank had not become an embezzler's playpen. He sent a letter to the bank's 15,000 employees, detailing what has been learned of the scam, and started talking to newsmen. Said...
...U.C.L.A., he carried the Bruins to two national championships in three years. Yet when he joined the Portland Trail Blazers as the top pick of the draft, the dream began to unravel. Walton was plagued by injuries and played just part of his first two seasons. Caught up on the fringes of radical politics, he was questioned by the FBI when it was suspected that one of his friends had harbored Patty Hearst during her days as a fugitive. Introspective and reclusive in a world of exhibitionists, Walton was a vegetarian who preferred a lumberjack's wool shirts...
Scientists will certainly find it hard to unravel social factors from any alleged genetic differences in ability, as this controversy will continue. Until it is resolved, the "little creeps" that populate upper-level math courses might have to do their socializing after class...
...Raiders were expected to finish last in the A.F.C. West this season, and after losing three of their first five games, seemed out of the hunt. Then Plunkett, the former Heisman Trophy winner from Stanford who had watched his injury-studded professional career unravel on other teams, stepped in to replace injured Dan Pastorini. The Raiders began to roll. In an amazing late-season rush, they won twelve of 14 games, outscoring the high-powered San Diego Chargers in the A.F.C. championship game...
...Sagan's Cornell laboratory, one of the main objectives was to try to unravel the mystery of how the building blocks of life?amino acids, proteins and DNA?could have evolved on the primordial earth. Although he and the Russian astrophysicist I.S. Shklovskii lived half a world apart, they collaborated in writing Intelligent Life in the Universe, still probably the best treatise on the prospects for extraterrestrial life. As a planetary expert, Sagan was called upon by NASA to act as an adviser and scientific investigator on unmanned space missions. He did not always endear himself to the space agency...