Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Many brokerages have turned over their trading records to the New York Stock Exchange, which is conducting a computer analysis. Says one investigator: "There is nowhere to hide. We're going to catch anyone who profited by advance knowledge of the column." Such individuals could face criminal charges for wire and mail fraud...
...streets of Gaza were deserted last week as residents sullenly submitted to a host of new regulations. Outside the Jabalia refugee camp, under a blazing sun, thousands of men stood in a queue snaking between double rows of barbed wire to receive new identity cards. Without them, they cannot work or travel and are subject to arrest. Near the Erez checkpoint on the Israeli border, Gaza drivers lined up every day starting at 3 a.m. for license plates that specifically identify the car owner's camp or town. At Gaza military headquarters, other Palestinians waited for proof-of-tax-payment...
Afterward, dozens of police officers hurriedly sealed off the road and climbed a nearby hill to search for the bombers. They found a wire they said had been used to detonate the bomb...
...like you come from another country. That's a country, isn't it? Mexico?" He asks in all seriousness, "Isn't it a country?" On television John David sees news reports of people with olive skin and thick black hair like his crawling through holes in a barbed-wire fence that separates Mexico from the U.S. Is this how his parents' families came to America? He does not know. "Freedom. I guess that's why they came," John David concludes. "I don't know if they had money...
Instead of catching the Yanks every night on television, I've become a faithful reader of the writer, known by many as "From Wire Dispatches." I can only imagine Don Mattingly drilling a shot to right field or Dave Winfield throwing a runner out at the plate. That is if Mr. Wire Dispatches decided to include it in his three-paragraph story...