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There was ABSCAM in 1980, when the FBI set up a sting operation that caught on videotape a senator and five representatives receiving cash payments from a fictitious Middle Eastern businessman in return for political influence.
NPR: Abramoff Latest in String of Congressional Scandals
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In other words, 50% of the FOMC dissented with Bernanke, at least in principle. (Read Operation Twist Set To Fail As Bernanke Insists On Flattening The Yield Curve).
FORBES: Split In Bernanke's Fed Widens, QE3 On Deck, FOMC Minutes Show
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Yield on 10-year Treasuries breached the 2% mark on the downside and traded at record lows, as fearful investors rushed into Treasuries. (Read Operation Twist Set To Fail As Bernanke Insists On Flattening The Yield Curve).
FORBES: A Transcendental Q3 Comes To An End: Equities Erased All Their Gains For The Year
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He is slated to film at least three other movies - including an action adventure, Operation Condor 3 - before work on Art of War is set to begin.
BBC: Jackie Chan in Rush Hour
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It was in December 1979 that the Japanese prime minister, Masayoshi Ohira, paid a historic visit to Beijing to set the seal on wide-ranging plans for Sino-Japanese co-operation.
FORBES: Hillary is Wasting her Time, and America's, on a Fool's Errand
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He has set up an on-line newspaper, Il Nuovo, a 35-journalist operation run by Sergio Luciano, a former business editor of La Repubblica, the second-largest Italian daily.
FORBES: A fiber niche is nice
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With the Full-area Touch AF, it is possible to set focus on any point in the field of view which yields quick and intuitive focusing operation with free frame composition.
ENGADGET: Panasonic Lumix GF6 announced for the US, shipping in June for $600
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Operation Trident was set up in response to a string of so-called "black-on-black" shootings and murders in Lambeth and Brent.
BBC: The Met's Trident unit loses its gun murders brief
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Israel and the Palestinians agreed they would be responsible for archaeology in their respective areas and set up a joint committee on the issue, but currently there is no archaeological co-operation between the two sides.
BBC: Middle East