Word: decipherable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ALL RIGHT, THERE'S THIS LITTLE black box full of mysterious and potent electronics that all kinds of people, good, bad and ambiguous, want to possess. The prize is merely the key to the universe -- or anyway that portion of it that is computer-driven. The box can decipher any...
EVEN AS THE FBI IS GAINING GROUND ON THE AMERICAN branch of the Mafia, it is getting ready to take on a new threat: the YAKUZA -- Japanese mobsters. An estimated 100,000 yakuza in Japan rake in some $10 billion a year from narcotics, extortion and loan-sharking. As the...
In fact, I take offense to anyone implying that I lack the intelligence or ability to separate fact from fancy with issues that challenge the "dominant ideology." Come on, my fellow Harvard comrades! Who better than us can decipher legitimacy from illegitimacy? We should be excited that the Harvard name...
Crutcher bases the protagonist of the novel, Wilson Corder, upon himself. Corder is a child therapist who attempts to decipher what has happened to abused children by talking with them. He gets them to cooperate by using a controversial examination method called play therapy--he has children act out their...
If Quayle, as the series says, "expresses approval and glee" at some of his wife's "mischievous" potshots, then he is likely to be delighted by the political barbs she has included in her soon-to-be-published thriller, Embrace the Serpent. Written with her sister Nancy Northcott, the book...