Word: breach
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When asked whether Logan Airport had suffered a breach of security, Lawless could not provide a definite response...
...Tucked inside the shock and fury was dismay at the performance of others whose job--perhaps impossible--was to prevent this from happening. There were quiet calls for the heads of CIA chief Tenet and FAA boss Jane Garvey for allowing so appalling a breach of security on their watch. And there was an equal determination to find those who were behind...
...When people who fear for their job, they don't, as a rule, spend as much as they would otherwise. It's known to Fed-watchers as a "breach of consumer confidence," and the funny thing is it tends to feed on itself. Consumers are at both ends of the food chain - when demand drops, they have to fire themselves, and they stop shopping. Without customers, businesses stay in their caves. Stocks keep shaking themselves out. Nobody gets rich, sometimes not for a long time. And then you get a potentially serious recession...
Sigma Chi board members also refused to resign from the board when Pi Eta voted to end the relationship—and Sigma Chi challenged the vote as a breach of contract before walking out of the meeting...
...that every time there is a Kennedy name on the ballot, the stakes are high for the entire family," says Brown University's West, who wrote a biography of Patrick. By the time Moakley died, on Memorial Day, the Senator's misgivings about Max were mounting. In an extraordinary breach of family secrecy, word leaked to the Boston Globe. Privately, Ted laid out the realities for Max as bluntly as he could, according to two sources familiar with the conversation. You can win and you have an advantage, he told his nephew. But it will take a lot more work...