Word: exposa
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...Ambrosiano, a story that in 1983 won him an Overseas Press Club Award and produced a book, The Calvi Affair. Returning to the U.S. as a free-lancer in 1988, Gurwin helped break another banking scandal, this one involving the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, or B.C.C.I. His exposa spurred a major federal investigation and led to another book, False Profits (1992), written with Peter Truell. We persuaded him to bring his talents to TIME last June...
Once a common sight along Southern highways, chain gangs fell victim to a reform movement that reached its zenith with the 1932 film exposa I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. By the late 1940s, the gangs were well on their way to joining stocks and public floggings in penological limbo. Thus there was little in the way of models when Alabama Governor Fob James decided last year to revive the practice. "We started from scratch," says Limestone warden Ralph Hooks, pointing proudly to a new, specially designed toilet that allows the men to relieve themselves in privacy while...