Word: linked
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...years as a prosecutor, Reno saw firsthand the link between a miserable child and a vicious adult. She fought for better children's services, from health care to day care to preschool education, all on the grounds of crime prevention. She set up a one-stop child-support center, with everything from counselors and law-enforcement officials to medical personnel for drawing blood to confirm paternity. She was one of the first prosecutors around to come down hard on scofflaw spouses who skipped out on child support, prompting a disgruntled father to scrawl threatening graffiti on a sign near...
That is just the way a Japanese mathematician, Yoichi Miyaoka, seemed to have cracked the theorem in 1988: he apparently (but wrongly) showed that there was a link between Fermat's Last Theorem and a proven proposition in a field known as differential geometry...
...through the cellular market, which was one reason for its $3.8 billion purchase of 33% of McCaw Cellular Communications, the largest cellular company. This, however, could present regulatory problems. The seven regional Baby Bells accuse AT&T of trying to subvert the 1984 divestiture order by using the McCaw link to surreptitiously re-enter the local phone business. They want the Federal Communications Commission either to force AT&T to dissolve its McCaw alliance, or to lift the ban prohibiting local phone companies from offering long- distance service. Says Richard Brown, vice chairman of Ameritech, the Chicago-based Baby Bell...
...sheik, and prepared an affidavit in support. The debate on whether to order the arrest went all the way to Attorney General Janet Reno. The consensus of superiors who reviewed the document and the evidence it contained, however, was that the agency just did not have enough to link Abdel Rahman to the plot in anything but a marginal way. FBI agents did raid Abdel Rahman's apartment in Jersey City and carted away boxes of documents and tapes -- said to have been left there by Siddig Ali for safekeeping -- but no other action immediately followed...
Those who wish to try their luck abroad are encouraged by the snakeheads -- who then link them with underground networks. Most of the arrangements are done by international crime syndicates, which cut deals with desperate families, then draw up the escape plan, procure the forged documents and furnish the transportation. One kingpin of the racket is Big Boss Ma (not his real name), a Thai gangster of Chinese descent who funnels mainland Chinese through Bangkok. Seated in the lotus position on a teak sofa at home in Mae Sai, a northern Thai town, Big Boss exudes confidence and affluence...