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...small screen quickly dispelled some further myths about country. "The image that people had of a country performer was Porter Wagoner -- a guy in his 60s who wears spangles and a highly tailored cowboy outfit," says Lloyd Werner, who heads sales and marketing for Group W. "But country fans discovered that country performers looked just like them." And cable executives discovered what they had already suspected -- that, in Werner's words, "a country music fan is not over 60 and does not wear bib overalls, drink Lone Star beer from a long-stemmed bottle and drive a 20-year...
...Election nights used to be a race to counting the votes," said Socolow. "I don't think people are aware that election-night calls[forecasts] are now all done by one outfit...
...MOST SOPHISTICATED SKATING OUTFIT...
...course, sometimes even high-level government employees could use some monitoring. Last month former IRS official Robert Roche was indicted for selling nonpublic marital records to Saranow, Wells & Emirhanian, a California-based investigation outfit run by ex-IRS officials. If convicted of the offense, Roche, who was the highest-ranking IRS criminal investigator in New Jersey until he retired in 1988, faces up to 12 years in prison. "I'm afraid these kinds of business crimes will become more and more prominent in the future," says U.S. Attorney Michael Chertoff, whose Newark office is involved in both...
...resold for as much as $175. Local law- enforcement employees punched into the FBI's national database for criminal-history reports, which subsequently retailed for $100. In telephone conversations taped by federal agents, information brokers bragged about pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. One Tampa-based outfit, Nationwide Electronic Tracking, even advertised its illegal services in brochures to private eyes, promising to process requests for "confidential data . . . 24 hours a day, 7 days a week...