Word: agent
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...most private citizens of a certain age, encryption is a term of espionage, redolent of secretly coded messages sent by agents from behind enemy lines. In the modern world of computers, however, encryption -- also known as ``crypto'' -- has moved from the clandestine to the commonplace. The use of sophisticated codes and keys to protect the privacy of electronic exchanges has become the practical equivalent of sending messages by secret-agent courier. In the past year, moreover, encryption has become a code word in itself, representing a raging war that pits government against a broad coalition of private citizens eager...
...airlines have gone after travel agents because they are convinced they have run out of options. Struggling U.S. carriers, which have lost a total of $10.5 billion in the past four years, have laid off tens of thousands of workers, demanded wage and benefit givebacks from employees, canceled or delayed billions of dollars of orders for new aircraft and reduced service to hundreds of small communities. But travel-agent commissions, which at $7.8 billion were the airline industry's third largest cost (after labor and fuel) last year, remained largely untouched...
...have distributed hundreds of kilos of crack and cocaine powder worth well in excess of $10 million on the street. And Q's network, according to the FBI, is only one of perhaps a hundred more in operation. They emanate from Los Angeles' increasingly expansionist gangland. Says FBI special agent-in- charge Charley Parsons in Los Angeles: ``The gangs are literally franchising themselves...
...surgery that would end his career while letting him remain active without pain. Sources told the Mercury News that Chief's president Carl Peterson wants Montana, 38, to publicly pin his decision on the injury instead of the team's prospects. So far, both the Chiefs and Montana's agent deny that the three-time Super Bowl MVP, who was traded to Kansas City from San Francisco in 1993, is planning surgery or retirement...
...said Hinkley would still get up to $3,000 a year of the profits for his personal use, $12,000 if he is ever released from the hospital. The rest would go to Reagan press secretary James Brady, who was permanently disabled in the shooting; and former Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy and ex-cop Thomas Delahanty, each of whom suffered less serious injuries. The deal caps off a longtime legal battle initiated by the three victims...