Word: funneling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rarely searched. Larger shipments are flown out on private planes or packed in seagoing freight containers, which are almost never inspected. That explains, in part, why U.S. officials are unable to locate fully 80% of all the bills printed by the Treasury. Once overseas, the cash is easy to funnel into black markets, especially in unstable economies where the dollar is the favored underground currency...
...early October, it was revealed that Gregory A. Johnson '72, the graduate secretary of PBHA, allegedly attempted to funnel a $150 contribution from PBHA to the campaign of then-Cambridge City Council candidate Kenneth E. Reeves '72, a former PBHA committee head. Students charged that Johnson used a blank voucher signed by the student heads of the Academy Homes committee and submitted a fraudulent receipt to justify the expenditure...
...example, some PBHA members have charged that the undergraduate directors of the Academy Homes committee actively went along with Johnson's plan to funnel money to Reeves' campaign event, despite an absolute prohibition on committees making political contributions...
...Most of the survivors were evacuated onto another paddle steamer, Crested Eagle, but a dive bomber set it afire, and most of the men aboard perished. A hospital ship marked with large red crosses rode at anchor off the beach all one day until a bomb went down its funnel and scattered bodies all over the harbor...
...Funnel did not do nearly as much damage tomy body as did my dear friends at UHS--UniversityHell Services. I entered Stillman Infirmary onesunny April day an innocent 18-year-old withstomach pains. I left 10 pounds lighter with moretrack marks in my arm than you'd find on anyjunkie...