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Darias thereupon entered -- to cite the pulsing prose of Swordfish's subtitle -- a world "of ambition, savagery and betrayal," not to mention careerism and bureaucratic incompetence. To lure high-level drug smugglers, the DEA set up a dummy money-laundering corporation in suburban Miami Lakes that was initially called Dean International Investments, Inc. Although he was only a hired hand, Darias more or less ran the operation while his handlers feuded with one another and scuffled for promotions. The bumbling agents, among other foul-ups, managed to lose a key recording of Darias' conversation with a suspect, left piles...
Ever the best girl in class, there seems to be no fact she hasn't memorized. The minutiae of the Veterans hospital regulations? She can cite section and subsection. The incidence of diabetes among Indians in Montana? Forty percent, and there isn't a dialysis machine for hundreds of miles...
...authors cite the examples of a woman whose clients were reassigned to others only because she announced she was having a baby and another who was told by a male mentor, "Take my advice. Don't take your whole maternity leave. Not if you want to keep your job." Several women had their babies on Friday and returned to work on Monday for fear their standing at work would be jeopardized. One lawyer who took four months off was greeted upon her return with a monthly billing report highlighting a $40,000 loss in income because of her absence...
...women will develop breast cancer, though the frightening statistic is based on women having an unrealistically long life-span. Environmental organizations tend to present the most alarming scenarios to pump up the threat of global warming. Hard-line politicians and gun lobbyists frequently cite figures creating the impression that the country is in the midst of an unprecedented crime wave, and yet homicides and other crimes seem to be declining, according to law-enforcement agencies...
...Harvard's MCAD response, however, Taylor appeared to cite a different dining services policy, relating to attendance...