Word: leak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friend of Duarte's. Interviewed on a local television station, D'Aubuisson accused Nuila of responsibility for death-squad killings. The charge against Nuila may be D'Aubuisson's warning to other members of the military to get behind the right or else face damning evidence he might leak to the public. Said retired Colonel Sigifredo Ochoa, a prominent member of ARENA: "Duarte is talking peace but provoking more war. If we have to fight, we will fight -- it doesn't matter what the consequences...
...surrounding Sequoyah Fuels is five percentage points higher than the national average. Is there a connection? Local residents think so: Sequoyah Fuels processes uranium concentrate into ingredients for bombs and nuclear-power- plan t fuel. The factory has been cited in the past for safety lapses, including a 1986 leak that killed one worker and released toxic uranium hexafluoride gas into the environment. Moreover, it is owned by Kerr-McGee, the Oklahoma City-based company implicated in the radioactive contamination of 73 workers at another facility -- the case uncovered in 1974 by the late Karen Silkwood...
Last week the court came close, upholding the mail- and wire-fraud conviction of R. Foster Winans, a former Wall Street Journal columnist who was paid by stockbrokers to leak information about upcoming stories on particular companies. The court also let stand his conviction on a securities-law violation. Investigators had feared that an adverse decision in the Winans case could cripple their efforts to go after big-time insider traders like Ivan Boesky and Dennis Levine. The high court's action, said Gary Lynch, head of enforcement for the Securities and Exchange Commission, "is tremendous news...
...could drive Beth's station wagon through. (How does Alex get Ellen out of school? Why didn't the family dog bark when Alex breaks into the Gallagher house? Why can't Dan hear the final struggle a floor above him, and why does the bathroom tile floor leak water?) The threat to Ellen's pet rabbit can be smelled three reels away from payoff; that hare is high. Lyne's visual style, with its grab bag of slick thrills and cheap tricks, is clever but unoriginal -- hack chic. And you needn't be a critic to get restless during...
Yancey said a "combat zone" mentality in Boston allows public safety to be ignored in certain areas. "Criminal activity is allowed to continue provided it does not leak out into the white community," said Yancey...