Word: hushing
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Stephanie Moore, a vice president of Forrester Research, says companies are concerned about the backlash but mainly because of the negative publicity. "The retail industry is very hush-hush about its offshoring," she says. But within the boardroom, such outsourcing enjoys wide support. In a June survey of 1,000 firms by Gartner Research, 80% said the backlash would have no effect on their plans...
...finger at the agency, saying it had not conveyed its broad doubts about the intelligence. In response, the White House has been pelted with leaks (which Bush aides claim are coming from the CIA) that contradict Administration statements. By accepting some of the blame, the White House hopes to hush the family sniping. Some aides even welcomed the congressional report on intelligence failures at the CIA and FBI before 9/11 as a way of diverting attention. "Now it's the CIA and FBI pointing fingers at each other," said a top aide of the report, "instead...
...Iranians are holding at least 40 of them, most from Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Kuwait. They're said to include Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a Kuwaiti-born al-Qaeda spokesman, and probably Saad bin Laden, son of Osama. In return, the mullahs would like the U.S. and Britain to hush their support for pro-democracy student demonstrations in Iran as well. - By Elaine Shannon and Adam Zagorin Bomber's Suicide SAUDI ARABIA Turki Nasser al-Dandani, thought to be the most senior al-Qaeda operative in the kingdom and the suspected mastermind of the May bombings in Riyadh, blew up himself...
...threw it away. When he noticed that someone had replaced it, he called the cops. The political espionage was utterly unnecessary. Richard Nixon was going to win in a landslide anyway. Rather than fire all those responsible for the break-in, Nixon instead paid the five arrested burglars hush money from an illegal White House slush fund; urged the CIA to close down the FBI investigation; told his subordinates to lie to investigators; discussed a variety of illegal cover-up plans in the Oval Office, knowing a tape recorder was already in operation there; fired the special prosecutor...
...feature the latest digital sound gear. Executives, if prodded, talk about "branding," "revenue growth" and "audience fragmentation." They speak such words softly--NPR is, after all, a not-for-profit organization whose member stations constantly beg listeners for contributions. But it's getting harder to keep its success a hush-hush affair...