Word: steals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest of the movie to create a noticeable pattern. Each scene becomes similar to a second hand revolving around the face of a clock. They start slowly with the haunting soundtrack building wonder into the crisp imagery. Bright colors and dark backgrounds rule the screen until the characters steal the spotlight from them. But each scene, like the second hand returning to zero, ends with Swinton's friendly stare...
...soil might slip into the hands of irresponsible governments or terrorists elsewhere on the planet. More than 25 countries are on the road to building weapons of mass destruction -- or buying them from those who have too many arms and too little money. Every industrial state is trying to steal another's high-tech secrets and protect its own. Terrorism is a multifaceted worry, emerging from religious and ethnic conflicts around the globe. Governments -- whole countries -- are being subverted by billionaire drug traffickers...
...full scope of changes is not reflected simply in organizational tinkering. International conflict is increasingly becoming a struggle for economic and commercial success, for contracts, exports and market share. This means the successful nations are trying to steal high-tech secrets from one another. The Third World and former communist states do not have the money to buy or build themselves quickly to prosperity, so they are seeking a shortcut by stealing technological, scientific and commercial secrets from more advanced countries...
...bribing foreign governments to give contracts to their countries' companies" rather than American firms. Though these forms of hard-knuckled competition are not new, Washington says it's not going to take them quietly anymore. That accounts for the fuss the U.S. made last month over French efforts to steal American technical and commercial secrets. The CIA issued an official warning that companies attending the Paris Air Show would be exposing their trade secrets to scrutiny by French agents. Hughes Aircraft stayed home, and Pratt & Whitney decided not to display what it had hoped would be its technological showpiece...
Senior U.S. officials admit that, like most countries' intelligence services, the CIA and other agencies have long collected economic intelligence and military-industrial secrets for use by government decision makers. What they have not done, the officials insist, is go out and steal trade secrets to pass on to American firms. The agencies do sometimes tip off companies they learn are being targeted by foreign agents, but they will not get into "offensive" gathering of commercial information for domestic firms. They also routinely gather intelligence on the positions of foreign governments in trade negotiations with the U.S., possible scientific breakthroughs...