Word: runaround
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...could not get him either. Finally he called North and said, 'There is a man here who says you owe him $10 million.' He chatted with North for a while, hung up and told me, 'North says the Israelis or the Iranians owe you the money.' I protested the runaround. He called a subordinate and ordered him to see what agency files contained on Lake Resources. He got his answer and told me that the only reference to this bank account appears in connection with my first complaint to him on Oct. 7. He then called a Mr. Cooper...
...film. As Peter Weir, the Australian director of Living Dangerously, avers, "She is one of the few women who can light the screen up. I will be very happy to see her ^ running around in space fighting monsters." Perhaps the film's success will end Weaver's Hollywood runaround and give her an actor-producer's clout. And then beware. Sophisticated romances, wry talkfests, even a musical -- Sigourney the star has surprises in store...
...runaround about receiving the letter? Were the people in Bok's office rightly embarrassed over the appearance of responding to a silly letter but not to a serious letter...
...President Reagan, who rang up to wish him well. Seizing his chance, Schroeder told the President, "I've got a Social Security problem." Reagan asked Schroeder to repeat himself. "O.K.," said the patient. "I filed March of 1984 for Social Security, and I'm just getting a runaround. I'm not getting anything at all." Promised the President: "I'll get on it right away." Two Social Security officials appeared at Schroeder's bedside the next day and handed him a check for five months' back payments. Said Schroeder, evidently pleased by the quick...
...year exile imposed after he killed Sollozzo the Turk and the corrupt Police Captain McCluskey. Michael's final assignment is to arrange the escape of a Sicilian outlaw who has become an endangered folk hero. This proves difficult. The godfather-in-training is given the runaround and a chance to witness treacheries that seem to have originated in the Punic Wars...