Word: actionable
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Experts who track that shadowy faith warn that anxiety over the approaching millennium, the power of the Internet and a new emphasis on independent action rather than group effort may contribute to a kind of domestic terrorism that is harder to track and impossible to anticipate. At its heart are an unknown cohort of largely disgruntled white males, many of whom, like Furrow, have failed so many times that they've given up trying to succeed in the mainstream of American life. Spurred on by the rhetoric of a handful of racist high priests, they are turning increasingly to violence...
...dollar settlement of lawsuits accusing the company of deceptive sales practices. Pending a federal judge's approval, Metropolitan Life says it will distribute $1.7 billion to some 7 million people who bought insurance and annuities between 1982 and 1997. This agreement will take care of a collection of class-action suits brought by the feds and private citizens, and is the latest in a long line of settlements by large insurers over questionable sales tactics. Example: "churning," in which a salesman gets you to finance a bigger, more expensive new policy with the cash you've accumulated in your...
...often that the worlds of literature and hard-core, pulse-pounding, rocket-launching action gaming meet, but they're about to. Yesterday, after a months-long campaign of hints and rumors, Electronic Arts announced its intention to publish a new horror-themed computer game built around technology developed for Quake III and designed by one of Quake's original architects. The game will be based on Lewis Carroll's classic children's book "Alice in Wonderland." Will it take gaming to a new level - or drag a literary classic down...
...above him, seemingly safe behind the walls of his estate, his entourage and his raging paranoia, lives the world's greatest action star, Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy), his sanity tenuously secured by devotion to a group that bears a passing resemblance to Scientology...
...attempt of the desperate former to feature the fame-addled latter in his absurd project. Basically, this involves making Kit the star of a movie without telling him he's in it. That in turn requires Bobby and his crew to stalk and provoke the star into photographable action. Since Kit is at least half convinced that he is being plagued by space aliens, these intrusions add fuel to the flame of his pathology...