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Word: eavesdrop (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said he would ask Congress for $1.5 billion to crack down on terrorism, outlining a plan that would include hiring 1,000 additional law enforcers, require explosive materials to be chemically "tagged" to make them easier to track down and make it easier for the FBI to trace and eavesdrop on phone calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: APRIL 23 - 29 | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

...Your equipment is fine,'' Codex says. ``I'm encrypting your back channel. To the cable company, it looks like noise. As you fig ured out, that number is your personal encryption key. No government or corporation on earth can eavesdrop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...future. Most CIA officers operate overseas as U.S. diplomats. But Darcy was posing as a businessman, an operative with what the CIA calls nonofficial cover, or NOC (pronounced knock). Darcy was transporting signal- interception equipment to a CIA boat that would sail off the coast of Lebanon to eavesdrop on terrorists. In front of him, police at a roadblock were searching all cars. If the police discovered his spy equipment, there would be no diplomatic immunity to keep him out of jail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPIES FOR THE NEW DISORDER | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...last refuge of a cultural historian, and mere Beatles browsers will find as few buried treasures here as they would in Hemingway's high school journalism, Quentin Tarantino's first script or Madonna's early nudes. But as a time capsule, the set is invaluable. To eavesdrop on their casual musicianship and their ad-lib ease is to hear a hopeful teen heart, circa 1962, beating in good-rockin' four-four time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: Becoming the Beatles | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

...under the watchful and electronic eye of their employers, according to a survey by the International Labour Organization, a United Nations agency. Just over 40 percent of the 301 companies polled said they searched employee email; 28 percent said they looked at network mail and 15 percent said they eavesdrop on voice mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE OTHER SIDE OF EMAIL | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

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