Word: leak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Businessmen have been wary of the Sandinistas since the leak last year of something called the 72-hour document. This clandestine paper described how a Marxist regime should tolerate a private sector only until the government was able to take over the economy and throw the capitalists out. Confiscations of land and factories by the government suggested to many business leaders that the Sandinistas took the document seriously...
Normally sperm are conveyed toward the outside of the body through ducts, the vasa deferentia. In a vasectomy, the ducts are cut, but sperm continue to be manufactured. With the exit passage blocked, the sperm break down and leak into surrounding tissue and possibly into the bloodstream, where they are recognized as "foreign" and attacked by antibodies. Alexander and Clarkson postulate that the resultant sperm-antibody complexes injure the artery walls and accelerate formation of atherosclerotic plaques...
Much of the press lives by leaks these days, but it pays a price for them that it may not want to think about. With increased frequency, the New York Times's front page quotes from documents "made available to the Times." By whom? Not stated. That was part of the bargain. Motivated by what? Also not stated. Last week one such leak created a damaging flap around Illinois' Charles Percy, who is first in line to become chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. After more than nine hours of talks with the highest Soviet leaders...
...would have reason to embarrass Percy in this fashion? And why? The Times was not about to tell its readers. But Times Reporter Bernard Weinraub was more scrupulous than journalists usually are in such cases. He indicated that the leak had not come from Ambassador Watson or the State Department, but from the Republican transition team, some of whose members ardently oppose SALT. Weinraub even listed six members of the transition team most dismayed by Percy's performance. Two days later the Washington Star identified one of the six-John Carbaugh, an aide to North Carolina's archconservative...
...pointed out that a satellite's beam would always be locked on target; in fact, it would disperse altogether if the satellite did not receive continuous electronic cues from a transmitter in the rectenna. Along its edge, said Glaser, the beam would be much less powerful than permissible leak age from a closed microwave oven...