Word: discreeter
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...weeks before final exams, after his superiors heard that he was gay. According to Allan Berube, author of Coming Out Under Fire, 100,000 to 200,000 of the 2 million members of the U.S. armed forces are gay, lesbian or bisexual. Most elude detection by being discreet. "The question is not, 'What happens if we let gays in the military?' " says Berube. "At least 99% stay and serve...
...Switzerland is a minimodel for the new confederal Europe. No melting pot here; instead it is a patchwork stitched together for common convenience -- and prosperity -- with each part retaining its distinctive culture and mores. There is no center, no dominating commercial or political capital. Power here is even more discreet than money, and like money in this richest of all European countries, it is spread around...
...been found on an 18,000-kg seizure near Los Angeles two months earlier. Baby I turned out to be a Santacruz protege in New York, Luis ("Leto") Delio Lopez, 28. His style, according to DEA agents, embodied the typical Cali cartel executive: businesslike, resourceful, hard- working and discreet...
President Cesar Gaviria Trujillo's advisers insist the Cali cartel will be given priority now that Escobar is jailed. Bonner argues that the new gangs will prove a more formidable threat to Colombia's security than the Medellin cartel "precisely because they make more discreet use of murder, bribery and intimidation." Says he: "The Cali organizations can be characterized as murderous thugs who are more politically astute in the way they carry out their business...
...appeals range from the discreet--offering a "good price"--to the blatant--"Willing...