Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said that in her application essay she discussed her work in Professor of Physics Gerald Gabrielse's lab, where she was involved in building a circuit to stabilize a laser...
...began quietly Monday some 600 miles north in Denver in the criminal trial of suspect Timothy McVeigh. In Oklahoma City, fewer than 75 survivors and relatives showed up at the 320-seat auditorium set aside by the federal government in an FAA building to watch the proceedings on closed-circuit television, though demand for seats is expected to grow keen once the trial begins. While extensive security precautions have been taken to lock down the area around the Denver courthouse where McVeigh is being held, the initial interviews of four potential jurors from a pool of 380 stirred little attention...
...nature and never sought the limelight; a bulletin board used to hang in the White House situation room with all the press photos that described him as an "unidentified staffer." While at the White House, he preferred shooting pool with Secret Service agents to hitting the Georgetown cocktail circuit. But Lake has not been shy about asking the CIA to undertake covert operations. During the first four years of the Administration he backed sensitive CIA operations to spy on and help bring down kingpins of Colombia's Cali drug cartel...
...argued that that testimony might be influenced by the emotional experience of watching the trial, a possibility bitterly rejected by victims and their relatives. Matsch says he changed his mind because of legislation signed last week by President Clinton that would allow the trial to be broadcast via closed-circuit television to an auditorium of survivors and victim relatives in Oklahoma City. Speaking amidst a growing national debate over victims' rights, Clinton said that "when someone is a victim, he or she should be at the center of the criminal justice process, not on the outside looking in." Matsch said...
...technology which no longer exists, namely party lines. On today's telephone systems, content of conversations is unregulated because the technology is fundamentally different than it was in 1883. In 1883, conversations between two parties were not private, and could be heard by other parties on the same circuit...