Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probably think the talent was not that good. But if the game went down to the wire, he'd be on the edge of his seat...
Once the Harvard wrestling team was in a quandary. The Crimson was having a tough night against MIT, and the coaches knew that the match would go down to the wire...
...competition went down to the wire, leaving the last event, the mile relay, to decide which team would be the victor...
...Attorney General in Colombia is about as secure as that of a high- wire acrobat. In January, Attorney General Carlos Mauro Hoyos Jimenez was kidnaped and brutally murdered by henchmen of the Medellin cocaine cartel for advocating the reinstitution of a Colombian-U.S. extradition law. Now his replacement, Acting Attorney General Alfredo Gutierrez Marquez, 63, has resigned. The reason: cocaine traffickers had used an airstrip on a ranch owned by his brother Libardo, 70. Gutierrez may have lacked the right attitude for his job anyway. Three weeks after assuming his post, he suggested that the best way to defeat...
...with conspiring to defraud the U.S. by establishing and concealing a plan for illegally supporting the Nicaraguan contras. The federal grand jury also charged all four defendants with theft of Government property for siphoning off more than $17 million in proceeds from U.S. arms sales to Iran, and with wire fraud resulting from the movement of the money through Swiss bank accounts. The three counts together carry maximum penalties of 20 years in prison and fines totaling as much...