Word: leak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Attorney General felt compelled to take a lie-detector test in connection with an internal-leak investigation that implicated top aides. The probe left ! many loyalists questioning his leadership...
Economically speaking, money spent on arms is largely wasted, siphoned off from the precious pool of capital like a big leak. (In the old days, swords could at least be beaten into plowshares. Try beating a tank into a tractor.) And though the annual difference between what we and the Japanese have spent on defense -- a gap of 4 percentage points -- seems small, small numbers compound. An economy growing 3% a year for 45 years quadruples. Not bad. But an economy growing 4 points faster, at 7%, grows 21-fold! This is, very roughly, the difference...
Cozying up with sources is par for the gossip course, and Smith has her own techniques. "My effort is to turn everybody I know into a legman for me," she says. Reporters at newspapers, magazines and the three networks, she claims, often leak snippets to her. Agents of all kinds drop nuggets, as do friends, parties and openings. Public relations people are "mostly so inept that you should just forget it totally." Though, in truth, Liz has been known to run their press releases verbatim, as well as to promote shamelessly her favorite restaurants, charities and plays...
When Union Carbide agreed last year to pay $470 million to compensate victims of the 1984 toxic-gas leak that killed more than 3,400 people in Bhopal, India, the company hoped it had put the world's worst industrial accident behind it. But after less than two months in office, the government of Prime Minister V.P. Singh last week disavowed the settlement. New Delhi said it would demand the $3 billion in damages that India originally sought and would seek to reinstate criminal charges against Union Carbide executives...
Appallingly, Exxon workers were warned of the possibility of a rupture but did not act. The pipeline, which connects an Exxon refinery with storage tanks, had a leak-detection system in place that flashed an alarm when the accident occurred. But instead of shutting down the pipeline, which would have kept the spill to a minuscule amount, employees failed to take the alarm seriously for nearly six hours. Reason: the safety system was known to be defective and had frequently sent out false alarms...