Word: ruse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bogus instructions into a computer terminal, perhaps transferring money from other deposits into the MAPS accounts. When Smith later started making large withdrawals, he attracted no notice. After all, he was a lord of the boxing rings and regularly paid fighters six-figure purses. Three weeks ago, however, the ruse unraveled. During some routine accounting work, a bank employee spotted serious irregularities in the records and sounded the alarm. Before the investigation picked up steam, both Smith and Lewis were gone. Smith's whereabouts were unknown at week's end, but TIME has learned that last Wednesday Lewis...
...Government last week, as he had pledged, much depends on his follow-through. Carter, after all, took a similar action, yet ended up with some 40,000 additional employees on the federal payroll at the end of his term. Reagan said that hiring outside contractors for federal work-another ruse for getting around a freeze-will not be permitted. But he did not issue a flat ban on the practice. Another tip-off will be the size of the White House staff. Like Carter, Reagan has promised to pare it. One measure of his resolve will be quickly apparent...
Indeed, Lee thought the end had come when he and a number of other captives were subjected to a grotesque mock execution. For Lee, the ruse was all too real: "I bought it. I thought I was a dead man." After the doomed rescue attempt, Lee and the other hostages were removed from the embassy compound and taken from jail to jail. He also spent some time in solitary confinement and had not been outdoors since last June. Lee's summation was terse and chilling: "I was just cannon fodder to them, just another body...
Computer crooks have developed a whole bag of electronic tricks. One is the so-called Trojan Horse. Like the famed ruse used by the Greeks to penetrate Troy, it helps an interloper get into forbidden recesses of a computer. The mischiefmaker slyly slips some extra commands into a computer program (the instructions by which the machine performs a given task). Then when another programmer with higher clearance runs the program, he will unwittingly trigger the covert instructions. These unlock the guarded areas, just as the Greek soldiers hidden in the horse unlocked Troy's gates. The culprit might then...
...inventiveness of despair, Carrie suggests that she and Oliver have a pretend-affair of their own to win their spouses back. The working of the ruse and the very clever denouement are as sacrosanct as the secrets of the confessional and the whodunit...