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According to Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet, this is the Agency's "biggest recruiting drive since the end of the Cold War." Thus, it would serve the CIA well to review its practice of the polygraph (a 30-year CIA veteran expressed to me his dismay over its use) and find ways to efficiently conduct the security clearance process (a new recruit even had to postpone his wedding due to uncertain timeline...
...wasn't one of the biggest meets of the schedule. Most of the people worked concessions and timing, so a lot of people weren't racing," Patillo said. " We'll look a lot better after break. Princeton is the [team] we are chasing after, I guess...
John Cleland, chief investment strategist at fund company Security Benefit Group, is so convinced that stocks will "melt up" next month that he has begun a special marketing campaign to attract new money by year's end. "Y2K will be the biggest nonevent in history," he predicts. "The door will not be wide enough for everyone who wants to buy stocks in January...
...epidemic first appeared on Army bases. Strapping recruits began the day in the pink and ended it drowning in their own secretions. The bug jumped quickly to the civilian population. Abroad, similar outbreaks spread until entire continents were stained by infection. The scourge remains, hands down, the biggest single disaster in human history. Strangely, it is also a chapter that has been largely forgotten. Kolata suggests that the lapse is due to the magnitude of the horror--in short, mass denial. Another diagnosis could be that the epidemic was conflated with the carnage of World War I, memories of which...
...visitor, the biggest difference between visiting an alternative space instead of a museum or commercial gallery is the kitchen-table cozy atmosphere. The artists running these places must be among the most affable people in the city of Boston. The person looking after the gallery is often the same person who made the art on display, and very often is eager to talk about his or her work...