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But Mary Allen Wilkes, chief of the economic crime and fraud division of the Middlesex County District Attorney's Office, added that her division has not enforced that law in at least years, because the schemes, which are not uncommon, usually "collapse of their own weight."

Author: By Matthew Snyder, | Title: B.C. Reinvents Pyramid Hustle | 4/2/1985 | See Source »

Murphy does demand efficiency from the company's units, however, and that has sometimes sparked laborrelations conflicts. When Capital Cities bought the Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) Times Leader in 1978, the new management tried to eliminate some employee benefits. That led to a strike by most of the staff, who started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: New Kid on Broadcast Row | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

One inflexible rule of journalese is that American assassins must have three names: John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, Mark David Chapman. This courtesy of a resonant three-part moniker is also applied to other dangerous folk. This is why the "subway vigilante" is "Bernhard Hugo Goetz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Journalese for the Lay Reader | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

Wrestling at Princeton and Wilkes (at Princeton)

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 2/1/1985 | See Source »

Readers of Caen soon learn more than they may want to know about his dietary habits (Shredded Wheat for breakfast), his haberdasher (Wilkes Bashford) and his favorite restaurants (Le Central and the Tadich Grill). Some of his word gags not only time eggs but also lay them ("bumpersnickers," for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Happening off the Floor | 7/16/1984 | See Source »

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