Word: illicitness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Laine's sin? He wrote that local jokes hinted that Shivaji might have been the product of an illicit romance. His real misfortune was being a handy target in an election year: whipping up enmity against alleged Hindu bashers is a tried and true campaign tactic in India. Laine says he hasn't received the summons and although he considers India his second home, "I have no plan to go there in the near future?and certainly not to Maharashtra...
...villain played by actor Vince Vaughn. Amidst killing his adversaries, juggling his lovers, and planning his daughter’s bat mitzvah, Feldman is about to bank out on his biggest deal yet with an undetectable strain of coke. With the help of Hutch’s street-smart, illicit informant Huggy Bear (aptly played by Hip-Hop and rap star Snoop Dogg), Starsky and Hutch go to all lengths—ludicrous disguises aplenty—to catch the crook. In the process the police partners develop their distinctively lasting dynamic, an enduring icon of 1970?...
When Rosalie becomes involved with Berglan Starker, the multimillionaire father of her friend Bella, she realizes both the difficulty of an illicit affair as well as the emotional snafus liable to arise. When he visits her to help cook dinner, she worries that his presence in her apartment will make her associate it with him in the future...
...Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia: The court asserted that Verizon, an internet service provider, could not be compelled by subpoena to release the names of users suspected of illegally downloading music. Apple and Pepsi will make a winning team because they circumvent these difficulties, instead attacking illicit file-sharing by offering legal music downloads to consumers at low cost, thus dissuading them from breaking...
...could clear the way for a man Chirac is said to loathe and perhaps fear: Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, the most popular conservative politician in France. Moreover, if Juppé were to meekly accept his conviction, some believe it would implicate Chirac, because the conviction stems from an illicit jobs scheme run out of Paris' City Hall from 1988 to 1995, when Chirac was mayor and Juppé his finance director. The stratagem, one of half a dozen Chirac-era setups now being investigated, allegedly provided bogus municipal jobs to seven officials of Chirac's Gaullist Party, whose salaries were...