Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...federal courtroom, his hands cuffed-unable, for the first time in more than two years, to feel the silky click of computer keys. He glanced over at Tsutomu Shimomura, the computer-security expert whose extraordinarily well-guarded personal computer Mitnick had allegedly broken into on Christmas Day. Shimomura, playing Pat Garrett to Mitnick's Billy the Kid, had taken his revenge by tracking the wily hacker across cyberspace-through the Internet, through local and long-distance phone companies and at least two cellular-phone carriers-until he finally traced him to his hideout in an apartment complex in Raleigh, North...
...current horror. It long ago stacked the deck against the players by exempting baseball from the antitrust laws, protection no other U.S. business enjoys. If the G.O.P. leadership were serious about getting the government out of things, it would join the call of Senators Orrin Hatch and Pat Moynihan to partly repeal the exemption. Fat chance. Beyond ``the stated reason that this should be resolved by the parties themselves,'' says Senator Bob Graham, there's also the fact ``that the owners have a significant amount of political clout, and they don't want Congress mucking around in this...
...Pat Buchanan will make another run for the GOP presidential nomination, Reuters reports. A thorn in President Bush's 1992 re-election effort, Buchanan delivered a fiery speech at the last GOP convention, in which he vowed to "take back America, street by street, block by block.'' The would-be candidate reportedly made the decision after former Vice President Dan Quayle decided last week to drop out of the race, raising Buchanan's hope of claiming Quayle's Christian Right constituency. Buchanan associates said he would attend a Republican convention in New Hampshire this weekend and compete in a straw...
...loans extended to it by private lenders--the deal is a hard sell to voters skeptical about helping either foreign nations or the Wall Street investors whose money is still in Mexican securities. At a press conference last week at which anti-bailout freshmen teamed with conservative commentator Pat Buchanan, first-termer Wamp promised to vote ``with the people of east Tennessee this time and not with [Fed Chairman] Mr. Greenspan.'' And while that puts the freshmen on the opposite side from their own leadership as well, Stockman says, ``In reality, I'm trying to save them from themselves...
...Pat Riley, Peter Guber, Andre Agassi, the L.A. Kings, Princess Diana...