Word: coded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the mission had a ferocious code name, "Operation Blast Furnace," it was apparently carried out under unwritten rules similar to those observed when federal revenue agents chased down Appalachian bootleggers: the etiquette dictated that no one on either side would really shoot to kill. U.S. troops, though armed with M-16 rifles, were under orders not to fire unless fired upon. Besides, the splash of unwanted publicity removed the surprise, ensuring that most of the big drug traffickers would be out of the country before the forces arrived. Said Bolivian Ambassador to the U.S. Fernando Illanes: "With...
...deposit at Credit Suisse Ltd. in the Bahamas, Wilkis conducted some 50 trades using inside information, according to the Government. Along the way, he transferred assets to other banks in the Cayman Islands, controlling the money through still more institutions in Liberia and the Bahamas and using the code name Mr. Blake. Later, under the name of Alan Darby, Wilkis talked with Levine, who called himself Mike Schwartz, about various insider-trading opportunities. Sokolow, who did not know Wilkis, began in 1981 to supply Levine with information about the pending actions of Shearson Lehman's corporate clients...
...later in House-Senate conference. Some of the far more generous transition rules kneaded into the House version of the bill will doubtless be bartered away, but others are sure to be affirmed in order to keep the support of influential Representatives for a sweeping overhaul of the tax code. Some of the deliberate obfuscation may clear up, however; the Senate last week piously passed a nonbinding resolution asking that the conference committee report the reason for each transition rule adopted, exactly who will profit and by how much--information that is still lacking on many of the Senate...
...suffers from a record trade deficit, Boeing is the country's No. 1 exporter of manufactured products, with foreign sales of $5.8 billion last year. Amid fears that America is losing its high-tech edge, Boeing is moving full speed ahead with a radically new passenger plane, code-named the 7J7, for the 1990s and beyond...
...pioneer. Robert B. Parker, creator of Spenser, a private investigator so sure of himself that he needs only one name, even wrote a Ph.D. thesis on the subject. According to the traditional ideal, to survive with dignity on the American frontier required a touch of ruthlessness and a personal code of honor. "When the wilderness disappeared at the end of the 19th century," says Parker, the hero "became a man, alone, facing an urban wilderness." A more precise definition of the breed came naturally enough from Chandler, the American-born, British-educated creator of Philip Marlowe, the detective...