Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powerful ally: their country's legal system. The laws of the Federal Republic, many enacted when Hitler was a fresh memory, strongly guarantee the right of political dissent and put heavy restraints on the investigative and prosecutory powers of the state. A cadre of 70 or so clever young radical lawyers (out of 31,000 practicing attorneys in West Germany) have pushed the system to its libertarian limits. They are not only the terrorists' best friends, but also the worst enemies of the courts...
...acquisition is richer in history than profit. Founded as a high-class men's magazine by Gingrich and two partners, Esquire has been a clever and richly wrought showcase for most major writers of the century, from Thomas Wolfe to Tom Wolfe. But with the rise of raunchier men's books (Hugh Hefner dreamed up Playboy after leaving a $60 a week Esquire promotion-writing job in 1952), and uncertainty about what Esquire's voice should be (the monthly has had four editors in as many years), advertising and circulation have dwindled. Over the past two fiscal...
Traditional auditing methods are powerless to stop sophisticated E.D.P. swindlers because accountants no longer can reconstruct a "paper trail" of records; a clever programmer can order the computer to erase all traces of his own incursion. Admits FBI Computer Expert James Barko: "Many cases are discovered completely by accident," like noticing suspicious high living by low-paid clerks. After raiding a New York bookie, police traced a $30,000-per-day betting account back to an $11,000-a-year teller at the Union Dime Savings Bank and discovered that he had made off with $1.5 million by the computerized...
...Onassis fleet remains not only profitable, by most accounts, but has also been updated. Ten aging vessels have been sold; contracts for four new supertankers, which Ari had unwisely ordered before the collapse of the market, have been canceled. A clever deal is in the works in which the Onassis group is expected to buy two supertankers from...
...Blue Line holds the most exciting ride, roaring through a tunnel under the ocean, coming up for air by Logan Airport, and then running out along the shore to the north. Most of the stations have clever motifs--the Aquarium stop has, oddly enough, huge line shots of fish on the walls. The Airport stop has line shots of jet airplanes, and past the Airport stop the train rattles by hangars so you can get a close look at the big birds themselves...