Word: pilfered
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...investigations unit because of Chinese efforts to smuggle out advanced U.S. weapons components and know-how. Last month agents thwarted China's second attempt to obtain military gyroscopes used in guidance systems for "smart" munitions, missiles and fighter aircraft. More customs cases are under way involving Chinese efforts to pilfer so-called critical technologies. FBI counterespionage specialists fear that the problem of spying isn't confined to Chinese visitors to the national labs. The FBI is taking a hard look at activities by scientists from several other nations, most notably Iran. For some years, Iranian scientists have visited the labs...
Next week a Taiwanese father-and-daughter business team is scheduled to be tried for paying a U.S. research engineer to pilfer manufacturing secrets from label maker Avery Dennison. Another Taiwan-based executive goes on trial in early April, charged with attempting to buy the secret formula for Bristol-Myers Squibb's cancer drug Taxol for $400,000--just one of many alleged plots to fleece R. and D.-rich pharmaceutical firms. Last spring a Gillette consultant went to prison for trying to market secret designs of the company's Mach3 razor to competitors such as Bic. And a small...
...necessarily need James Bond to pilfer corporate secrets. Amateur actors will do fine. Over the past few years, textile manufacturer Milliken & Co. allegedly stole information from a host of rivals without so much as a bug or a mole. Instead, according to a lawsuit filed last October by Johnston Industries, based in Columbus, Ga., one Milliken employee posed as a business-school student researching a paper, and another played a Swiss banker seeking investment opportunities. One alleged target, NRB Industries, has reportedly settled its case against Milliken. The $2 billion-a-year titan has denied the charges, but Johnston...
...times and make sure to utilize the peep-hole when there is an unexpected knock at the door. After your next trek to see him in the wilds of a liberal arts school in Maine or the frat-heaven of your state university, make sure to conveniently pilfer a few articles of clothing and especially a well broken-in hat. Go to bed every night wrapped in the comfort of his Cape Cod Community College sweatshirt with the faint and wafting scent of his cologne...
...Eighties chirp in with a chorus of "Me, me, me!" My Lord, what a ruckus. All this Retro can give a girl a headache. But before you get nostalgic about the future, remember that every morning you have the potential to broadcast something. No matter which decade you pilfer, you are announcing "I am of the now." You are playing a cosmic game of Whack-a-Mole...