Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...getting rid of Tripp sooner. "She's a complete wacko. She was imperial. You couldn't get any work out of her. She wasn't collegial," he says. Many remember her frequent gab-session cigarette breaks. Says a Bush White House official: "[Tripp] always wanted to know where the dirt was, some controversial things. We all put her on the A-void, don't tell her anything...
...about tapes. And the patron flick of wiretappers has got to be The Conversation (1974). Gene Hackman has the Linda Tripp role, a surveillance pro who gets hired to uncover an affair. Eerily, he plays the sax. And Linda, this part's for you: when the dirt Hackman digs gets folks in trouble, he develops a severe conscience problem. Stay till the end -- it's a doozy. Watching a tortured Gene tear up a Virgin Mary is chilling...
...rutted dirt road leads to Vojnik, a farming village of 200 houses and 2,000 ethnic Albanians. Devoutly Muslim and speaking a complex, ancient language derived from Illyrian, the people here are the most doggedly independent of the approximately 2 million Albanians who inhabit Kosovo. Their houses, resembling modest forts, are hidden behind high walls of brick if the owners are well off or crude fences of woven sticks if they are not. Out on an isolated bluff, behind a particularly high brick wall, sits the compound of the village hoxha (religious leader), Abdyl Krasniqi...
...they're needed, each of them is ready with a high-nicotine smoke, Shannon says; they would never let one of them have it to themselves. Except they all denied it to the government, and that's a criminal offense. "The more Justice gets from B&W, the more dirt it gets on the rest of them," Shannon says. "There are a lot of tobacco lawyers that just went on the clock today...
Grove has so effectively squashed the competition that his biggest worry isn't the rumblings of AMD but the strategic risk of a slowing PC market. The hottest-selling PCs this year have been dirt-cheap, sub-$1,000 models. Growth there could wreck Intel's business model. Says Drew Peck, an analyst at Cowen & Co.: "You can't sell a $500 processor in a $1,000 PC." And though cheap PCs are a tiny part of the overall market--businesses generally buy pricier PCs--Intel may be heading into a sea change. Intel's buoyant stock...