Word: tap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manhattan firm of Nixon Mudge Rose Guthrie and Mitchell. A dour, pipe-puffing municipal-bond lawyer, Mitchell was also Nixon's closest political confidant. As Attorney General from 1969 until early 1972, he was the exemplar of the tough law-and-order man, who claimed the authority to tap the telephone of anyone whom he considered a security risk...
...transporting and insuring goods. They hunt up bank loans when needed. A small army of trading-house representatives roams the world sending back a steady stream of information on foreign politics, weather, and anything else that might affect an export decision. The trading houses also organize huge consortiums to tap natural resources anywhere. Mitsui, for instance, is a major partner in a group that is developing copper deposits in the African nation of Zaire...
...alums are providing information in a lot of areas where we just don't have competence," he continued. "We're trying to tap a broader base of experience and gain firsthand knowledge in as many fields...
Fortunately, chorus ennui is no match for Cole Porter's music, the flashy tap dancing, and the extravagance of Chery1 Marynell's satin and slink costumes. Heaven knows -- everyone...
...Briton's endearing assumption that gentlemen do not tap each other's telephones is, naturally, the despair of merchants like Mr. X, who sells all sorts of bugging gadgets to overseas clients. "I find it horrifying," he says, "that we are in the Common Market with the Germans, the French and the Italians, who know all about this equipment and don't feel too many moral qualms about using it." There are probably no more than 20 British companies, he laments, that even bother to "sweep" their board rooms for bugs that have been planted by their...