Word: larking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cyber bandits keep probing nonetheless. TIME has learned that CIA security officers have caught at least half a dozen agency employees and contractors who on a lark have tried to hack parts of the agency's computer system that are closed off to them. A hacker from Canada almost daily tries to break past the CIA's Internet link to get to the agency's secret files. He once used the password "Clinton," thinking that would give him access to any secret. It didn't. "We know who he is," a CIA official said with a smile. "But there...
...lark, frivolous, of no importance, say some. But much can be discerned from frivolity, and clearly, the Pudding shows with their unrelenting focus on cross-dressing, serve to reinforce crude stereotypes of women...
...primary difference in the two types of boats is in the weight. While a lark weighs approximately 200 pounds, sonar weighs in at 4000 pounds...
...Mexico. Try the unconventional. Don't just look in the New York Times for a job; look in the Economist."' And Kahan thinks worldwide career searches are likely to be commonplace in the future: "It is going to be a life choice, not a vacation or a lark like the Peace Corps, where the purpose was always to come back...
...Lark and sparrow sing a melodious discourse...