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...Nixon had used it to harass his political enemies. The Reagan Administration is now trying to loosen the Taxpayer Privacy Act, which some officials bitterly call "the Organized Crime Relief Act," to give law enforcement agents greater access to taxpayer records. The IRS is also assigning more investigators to ferret out tax evasion among major drug traffickers...
...policemen learn," Wambaugh writes, "life imitates not art but melodrama," and he enlivens his dense tale with vivid examples. His heroes carom off two patrolmen dubbed "street monsters" for their appetite for violence; a Marine posing for gay sculptors; the Ferret and the Weasel, a pair of frenzied narcs; a Vietnamese assassin; Tuna Can Tommy, a flasher with a phenomenal physique; and a massage-parlor hostess called Jackin Jill...
Technically, the Ptashe case did involve the concept of "technology transfer," a buzzword indicating the process by which discoveries and inventions made in university laboratories are brought to the marketplace. The clarification of federal patent regulations in recent years has given universities the incentive to ferret out potential patents and to license them to developers. Toward this end, Harvard established a Committee on Patents and Copyrights (CPC), which began work in 1977 under the chairmanship of Henry C. Meadow, dean for planning and special projects in the Faculty of Medicine, and which, according to executive director Stephen H. Atkinson...
Instead we put our faith in the capacity of free discussion to ferret out the truth from malicious falsehoods. We believe The Crimson should run all ads as they are submitted...
...critics can't digest so much. They prefer two-or-three-chord junk food--who said rock and roll wasn't about arrested development? Of course the songs on Get Happy!! didn't "breathe"--they were choked with carbon monoxide and tears of boredom, frustration, rage. Elvis was a ferret trapped in a septic tank...He got his rocks off that time, the fury dribbled out, and Trust is his depressing post-coital meditation--no longer an active participant. Elvis watches us all from the stage. Trust, his most objective album, is also his least taut: it breathes, and sometimes...