Word: escrowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Class of 1960 requested that their class gift be held by Radcliffe in escrow because of "profound concern over the status of women faculty at Harvard" and the role of Radcliffe in abetting the situation, according to Frances O.Zimmerman...
...identified for the FBI the name of every KGB agent in the Soviet embassy in Washington. At each of its meetings with Motorin, the FBI gave him a modest cash payment, at first $100, later $200. After each meeting, the bureau also put aside $500 in an escrow account, to be held for Motorin against the day that he might defect...
...military and intelligence communities, who see it as a serious threat to their ability to police computer crimes and espionage. The U.S. government is trying to suppress development of such unbreakable encryption on two fronts. It is promoting public use of its own approach to the technology, called ``key-escrow encryption,'' which would allow the government to hold keys to any and all encrypted communications. Washington is also vigorously enforcing a ban on the export of encryption software, regardless of whether such software can thwart government operations from outside U.S. borders...
HAROLD ICKES DOESN'T LEAVE THINGS to chance. While he was running the Democratic Convention in New York City in 1992, he insisted the cashier's check for the confetti vendor be held in escrow in case the climactic balloon drop following Bill Clinton's acceptance speech flopped. Ickes' tactic forced the balloon man to climb into the rafters to cut the netting with a large knife. The sight of an armed man climbing through the lights at Madison Square Garden drove Clinton's security detail to distraction. "The Secret Service guys nearly shot the guy out of the rafters...
After much wrangling, a compromise was reached. The defense's experts could visit Cellmark Diagnostics in Germantown, Maryland, where the prosecution had sent the samples for testing, and could pare off 10% of each sample. But the material removed would in effect be held in escrow. After hearing expert testimony, Judge Ito would rule on the disposal of the sliced-off portions...