Word: walker
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...Jamaican villa, funding his campaigns with state money, and selling drivers’ licenses. He topped former Governor Otto Kerner, who was convicted in 1973 for 17 counts of corruption, one of which involved trading permission to hold horse races for stock in horseracing companies. Governor Dan Walker also served time in 1987 for bank fraud, although, disappointingly, his conviction did not relate directly to his governorship...
...return for $356,000 worth of stock at prices far below market value. He neglected to mention anything about it on his tax returns. Kerner was convicted in 1973 of bribery, conspiracy, income tax evasion, mail fraud and perjury and was sentenced to three years in prison. Dan Walker, a veteran of World War II and the Korean War who made a name for himself by heading up the investigation into the riots at the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention, came into office the same year Kerner was convicted; after he left, he started a savings and loan business...
...producers nor HMS Dean Jeffrey S. Flier could identify the cancer slide shown on the back of the program as part of an ad by the Pathology department. “It looks pretty nasty though,” Flier says. —Mia P. Walker...
...best tools at her disposal to control the city's growing thirst. In the spring, officials approved a staggered rate hike that increased prices for low-volume users 17% and for the highest-volume users more than 30%. The city has also unleashed its water cops--officials like Dennis Walker who ride around sprawling new housing developments looking for violations of outdoor-water-use laws. Sprinklers are illegal during the daylight hours, and homeowners have to use a misting system rather than simply hose down the grass. Through ignorance or obtuseness, however, not everyone has gotten the message...
...Veering off track. Resisting the urge to Google Are we there yet? No longer quite so friendly to drop-bys. ("Yes, it's a treadmill." "Not that difficult, but I'm a practiced walker." "I am working...