Word: ratting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DETROIT COMPUTER BULLETIN board lists the names of local agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and offers helpful advice on how to harass them. A licensed gun dealer, required to surrender his business records to ATF's national tracing center, coated them first with rat excrement. A flyer found posted in Pennsylvania reads WANTED: ATF AGENT. DEAD...
CASALI AND KLIPFEL, LABELED AS snitches, fast became outcasts. Klipfel found a black plastic rat in her office. Pictures of her children were knocked off her desk repeatedly. In a lawsuit they filed in Chicago federal court, Klipfel and Casali allege that ATF conducted a "deliberate and strenuous" campaign of retribution meant to suppress further disclosures of misconduct. Says Sanders: "Retaliation is so obvious...
...space station, he had some things he wanted to get off his chest. First, the food was only so-so (tinned perch was a staple). Then there was the lack of news from home. "The cultural isolation is extreme," griped Thagard, who referred to himself as a "lab rat." NASA officials said they have begun to look into the psychological effects of long-term missions in space, where people can indeed hear you complain...
...gracefully toward that conclusion, Cartwright, a novelist with film experience, often becomes the target of his own satire. At the center of the story is S.O. Letterman, a movie producer who starts off high-minded and ends with his eye on the box office. Letterman does not give a rat's rump for historical truth. Tim Curtiz, a London-based journalist taking a crack at a lucrative script-writing assignment, does. The subject of the movie, called Masai Dreams, is a striking French anthropologist named Claudia Cohn-Casson, whose work among the Masai, and whose fate at the hands...
...Pulling on the shirt, Solavyev, who became a Rockets fan while training for the mission at the Johnson Space Center, took advantage of gravity-free conditions to vault over his fellow spacemen. Astronaut Norman Thagard, who celebrated his 52nd birthday aboard the MIR space station feeling like "a lab rat" as fellow astronauts collected blood and other biological samples, said he wished he could have brought his wife along. When the two giant spacecraft undock on Tuesday, two of the MIR cosmonauts will film the maneuver from a small Soyuz vehicle nearby. Atlantis is due home on Friday...