Word: whether
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...stressful. Superbowls often end before halftime, and while the World Series and NBA finals are best-of-seven series, one team often wins well before the seventh game. It has been over twenty years, however, since more than two points separated the Ryder Cup teams. Thus, every single shot, whether on Friday morning or Sunday afternoon, can make all the difference. Moreover, golf demands deliberate and thoughtful, not reflexive and instinctive, activity, so the pressure weighs upon the competitors unlike any other sport...
...like Benex and Mabetex are under investigation in Russia, Switzerland and the U.S. They're not connected, but taken together they seem to illustrate the remarkable variety of ways in which Russia was looted. Most so far involve sparse, unproved allegations, and it will take years before anyone knows whether any laws were broken and by whom. All the individuals whose names have surfaced deny any wrongdoing...
...Feds suspect that Benex served as a conduit for capital fleeing Russia, either legitimate or criminal profits, and want to know whether U.S. banks facilitated foreign theft. When the Republic National Bank sent an investigator out to an address in Queens that some of the Benex funds had been wired to, it found nothing there at all. "We have a company that exists only to collect dollars from Russia for transmission elsewhere," says an investigator. "Who the hell knows who's on the other end of the line...
...Porsche to his office and handed over the keys. Two hours later, he was on a plane bound for San Francisco. Luis left behind most of his family and a new fiance. "The only thing that bothered me was that my grandparents are old," he says. "I wondered whether that might be my last goodbye...
...infectious. By the end of dinner, they are even using the right metaphors. "Everybody wants the gold," Thomas says. "The difference between this country and the next one is that here there's no penalty for failing. The thrill of taking part is far more important than whether you win or not. This happens once in a lifetime. Even if we don't make any money, at least we can say we were there...