Word: vanload
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...fair, it wasn't just politics that led the Spanish government to see the attacks through an ETA prism. The Feb. 29 arrest of the alleged ETA operatives with their vanload of explosives was not the only recent attempt foiled by Spanish police. Last Christmas Eve, Spanish police foiled an attempt by two ETA operatives to blow up a train bound for another of Madrid's major train stations, Chamartin. They caught one trying to put a suitcase packed with 62 lbs. of the explosive Titadine on the train before it left and later found another suitcase with...
...business generally, was immune to criminal investigation. Why? Because, you boring philistine, it was about noble and holy art. To stand on the podium and receive bids for a Rubens Crucifixion or a still life by Van Gogh, who died for our sins, was not like buying a vanload of AWOL television sets or a few vials of crack. But, of course, it is just another business. The auction market shifts more than $4 billion a year, and its two powerhouses, Sotheby's and Christie's, control 95% of that. For decades, rising to a climax just before the great...