Word: prowled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reassuringly from a 5-ft.-high black-and-white photo in the lobby. Inside, Grove and Moore work from 8-ft.-by-9-ft. cubicles accessible to anyone bold enough to wander by for a chat. There are no special privileges. If Grove rolls in late, he has to prowl Intel's jammed lot looking for a space just like any shavetail engineer. Craig Barrett, 58, Intel's president, sometimes shows up in lizard cowboy boots, often en route to his ranch in Montana from Japan or Malaysia. They are known universally as Andy and Craig. The just-folks culture...
...fact the two-legged city wolves are on the prowl. What diplomats and journalists routinely call economic reform in Russia is now more reminiscent of wolves tearing at the carcass of a giant beast. The new banking magnates--oligarchs as they are often known--are fighting over the remains of the Soviet Union. There are very rich pickings: oil fields, natural gas, precious minerals and strategic metals. The people who end up with the largest hunks of the carcass will be powerful figures indeed, both here and abroad...
...government is hiding the truth," says Silo-X's advertisement. "A major missile warhead meltdown...radiation contamination imminent...murderous mutant crew members on the prowl...
...crazy enough to go cold turkey, say U.S. intelligence officials. The FBI, which is investigating the Mega case, has grumbled privately that Israeli espionage agents routinely prowl California's Silicon Valley and Boston's Route 128 corridor for high-tech secrets. "The Israelis were bumping into very nearly every one of our friends and allies doing the same thing," says a former FBI counterintelligence agent. In a report last year to the Senate Intelligence Committee, the CIA identified Israel as one of six foreign countries with "a government-directed or -orchestrated clandestine effort to collect U.S. economic secrets." Senior intelligence...
...sense of humor is always on the prowl, even in person, but he is an equal-opportunity lambaster. He moves from a hilarious sendup of an anonymous schmooze at the New Yorker Christmas party ("David daaahling you must meet Calvin!") to a gleefully cruel assault on an innocent Au Bon Pain patron. Nor does he spare himself...