Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heavily recruited by North Carolina and Duke, and he did not at first seriously consider enrolling at Harvard. But Bernie McGregot '73 former assistant coach at DeMatha, told Ferry about the Crimson program, and he "put the bug in my car," the senior recalls...
Unlike a spaghetti western, The Sicilian has no one-on-one shootout under a hot sun. Instead, Don Croce and Guiliano are locked in an elaborate melodrama of betrayals within betrayals. Puzo too demonstrates sly moves. His florid descriptions and graphic action scenes guarantee bug-eyed attention while he plants a sardonic fatalism in the heart of his book. One of the rarest commodities in his Sicily is truth ("A source of power, a lever of control, why should anyone give it away?"), while revenge is one of the highest virtues ("On this Catholic island, statues of a weeping Jesus...
...trail of evidence on the alleged scheme had begun in 1978, when the double-dealing Orlando told his FBI contacts in New York about Masselli's Mob connections and his operations. With this information, the New York agents on Jan. 4,1979, got a court order to bug conversations and tap telephones at Masselli's meat-packing warehouse in The Bronx. Over six months this produced 892 tape recordings. The mobsters talked about Jo-Pel, the Frascone murder and Democratic officials in New York City and Albany who, they claimed, were corrupt. Donovan was mentioned in various contexts...
...TYPICAL HARVARD STUDENT, who is already scraping the bottom of the barrel to plunk down $15,000 for a Harvard education this year, is increasingly finding occasion to fork over another $2,000 while he's at it. The personal computer bug has now officially bitten Harvard and while they aren't saying as much openly, the implicit message from Harvard officials is clear...
Anderson, a native of Spokane, says he has always had a fascination for balloons, but in the wheatlands of eastern Washington balloon flying was hardly the rage. He studied economics and then political science, but the science bug bit him, and before long he was off to pursue a career in atmospheric chemistry...