Word: backdoors
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When mercurial Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi abruptly renounced his nuclear ambitions at the end of December, he exposed another case of Pakistani proliferation. Investigators now exploring Libya's projects have found "interconnections" with Pakistan's technology and a backdoor trading network, according to a New York Times report. The U.S. thinks oil-rich Libya first began funding Pakistan's nuclear development in the 1970s and periodically supplied raw uranium. Washington officials say Gaddafi was eventually rewarded with Pakistan's centrifuge designs and secret supplies of essential materiel that helped Libya close in on nuclear-fuel production...
...think they did a good job of finding seams,” he said, “even some backdoor seams...
Wang's plan to leap into the U.S. was simple: buy a small, listed American firm and move his own operations into its corporate shell. He has used such "backdoor listings" at home by buying a mango packer, shifting part of his meter business to it and renaming it Holley Science and Technology. For his U.S. debut, he chose a struggling, NASDAQ-listed California firm called American Champion Entertainment. Its main asset was a kids' TV show, Adventures with Kanga Roddy, about a karate-kicking marsupial. Wang paid $5 million in early 2001 for a controlling interest. Two months later...
Princeton shot a staggering 56 percent from the field for the game, taking advantage of easy layup opportunities off its classic backdoor play. Ray Robins finished with 22 points, most of them coming on backcuts that victimized Crimson senior forward Sam Winter...
Between the Quaker chaos and with Yale still reeling after being swept by Brown, the title chase is wide open. Shutting the backdoor tonight at Princeton could now officially blow the barndoor open in the Ivy race...