Word: hushing
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...masters say the best thing is for them to quickly huddle at their private monthly meetings and continue the search for consistency among the Houses. The is hush and hold your breath. With this year as a reasonable indication it's better to exhale...
...Everything was hush, hush," said one member of the basketball team asked not to be identified. Every player contacted yesterday lauded the decision to dismiss Kleinfelder as a good and necessary...
...winter came and snow fell to hush everything that had been clicking. Delaware cancelled a week ago today and New Hampshire curiously pulled out of its commitment Wednesday. Disappointed in their inactivity, the team retreated to Briggs Cage...
...Watergate crew has turned out to be an incredibly literate band of co-conspirators, producing a stream of fiction and non-fiction that began, it seems with the first indictment Charles Colson, in his memoir, Born Again, told how Jesus--if no one else--has forgiven him for paying hush money to the Watergate burglars. In Blind Ambition, John Dean reminded us that he decided to snitch on Nixon for the good of the country--not to mention the success of his own plea-bargaining. And G. Gordon Liddy's bizarre autobiography, Will, left no doubt that all his malevolence...
...unknown and probably unknowable. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce puts the annual loss from electronic theft at $100 million. But computer-crime specialists say that the true figure could be considerably higher. Much chicanery goes undetected, and even when culprits are caught, the victimized company often tries to hush up the scandal and absorb its losses rather than admit to having poor computer security. Says Charles Lecht, president of Advanced Computer Techniques Corp., which distributes computer equipment: "The crime you see is a fraction of what's going on." According to banking sources, a Washington, B.C., bank...