Word: secret
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...economic data from Asian countries where Lippo has a big stake. At Commerce, Huang stayed in regular contact with Giroir, as well as Lippo, and frequented the Washington office of a company that Giroir represented, using its phones and a fax machine for what investigators suspect were transmissions of secret material to Lippo. Huang's lawyer says those suspicions are based on innuendo. Giroir's lawyer declined to comment...
...seven gangland murders, as well as an attempted hit on archrival John Gotti. Throughout those seven years, Gigante's lawyers and family have insisted he is a feeble, addled man going back a quarter of a century, incompetent to put on a pair of pants, let alone mastermind a secret society of schemers, thieves and assassins. But prosecutor George Stamboulidis called it a "shrewd and shameless camouflage," and a detective testified that the slow-footed Gigante developed Olympian quickness when a car bore down on him as he crossed Sixth Avenue one day. The government, however, has offered little hard...
...make love than war. The marriage of Northeastern neighbors NYNEX (1996 revenues: $13.5 billion) and Bell Atlantic ($13.1 billion) awaits final government approval, while Southwestern titan SBC Communications has hooked up with Pacific Bell in California to create a $23.5 billion MegaBell. And in perhaps the worst-kept secret in Big Business history, AT&T ($52.2 billion) tried to buy the bulked-up SBC in a deal that went dead last month over disagreements between the companies and the hostility of regulators...
...until the signal arrives. Then it kicks into high speed, only to lapse once again into plodding. There are a few unexpected and welcome turns--most notably the chilling sight of the first visual image transmitted from Vega; and whenever elusive, eccentric billionaire S.R. Hadden (John Hurt), Ellie's secret ally, pops...
Then I saw the movie Face/Off. Some of it takes place in an awesomely severe prison whose very existence is secret. It occurred to me that the squeegee guys could be in such a prison. Maybe part of their sentence is to clean windshields over and over with a clean cloth and then decline the quarter offered them by the guard who sits behind the wheel...