By the time Mr. Vick had to lay his affairs bare before the bankruptcy judge, he was up to his ears in all sorts of expensive investments.
Besides violent acts, the 17 stories in the anthology revolve around "cheating, lying, having affairs — all those lovely things," she said.
("Is this it?" asks Ms. Caspersen incredulously. "The fighting, the lying, the affairs?") That tedious normality is slowly transmuted into something more intangible: the idea of the terrible battle between the mind and the body in the search for a depersonalized love.
Corruption and betrayal, lies, greed, affairs and scandal – all were just part of another day at the Southfork Ranch.
Although ultimate responsibility for trust affairs lay with this team, it is clear significant power was exercised by Robert Tchenguiz and a handful of his chief lieutenants, leaving Investec trustees often feeling they were struggling to keep up.
Responsibility for this state of affairs lay with Conté, whose government was characterised not only by "state-sponsored abuses and repression", but by "an increasing criminalisation of the state" in which assets were seized and exploited by his close associates, according to a Human Rights Watch report.
While Khrushchev's responsibility lay in political affairs, he involved himself in the practicalities of resuming full production at the mine after the chaos of the war years.
According to this official document, the blame for the Executive Life affair lay with former managers of Altus and the group.
By 1994, everyone was calling for the appointment of an independent counsel -- the Clintons in order to lay the Whitewater affair to rest and their opponents in order to destroy them.
The drawback with the first concert of the annual Baroque minifestival of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on Friday evening, a Bach affair, lay less with the excellent performers — the Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt and the German cellist Daniel Müller-Schothan than with the repertory, or rather their relationship to the repertory.
