Word: tap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author of April in Paris, Screenwriter Melville Shavelson converted his Radio Shack home computer into a word processor with the addition of inexpensive software. This double-barreled capacity to tap and then manipulate information allows him a futuristic scope: "I subscribe to a Virginia computer service called The Source. I can get Jack Anderson scoops three days before they're scoops," claims Shavelson. "I can feed into it any two cities in the world and it'll figure out the airline connections for me, with a restaurant guide to various cities. Also I have a research service...
...suit was filed by Morton Halperin, who, as an aide to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, was suspected of leaking information about the secret bombing of Cambodia. The tap on Halperin's home phone lasted 21 months, long after he had left the Government and joined the campaign staff of Democratic Presidential Candidate Edmund Muskie. No evidence was produced that Halperin had leaked classified information, and his lawyers charged that the eavesdropping was for political rather than security purposes. Nixon's lawyers claimed that a President should be immune from suits arising from his official acts...
...Arabs, the Israelis and the American public. To the moderate Arab states it was necessary to show concern over Israel's act and publicly to reprimand Jerusalem, lest the Soviet Union profit from Arab outrage over the bombing. To the Israelis it was necessary to administer a tap on the wrist-and that was all it was-without altering the strategic and historic special relationship with the U.S., on which Israel's survival depends. To the American public it was necessary to show the fledgling Administration to be both temperate and decisive in dealing with a major foreign...
...good mason you must have an eye for surfaces," says Bambridge. "You must visualize the finished job before you start, so when you drop down into the stone with your chisel, you know where you are headed. Keep your elbow tucked tightly to your side. Don't tap the stone like a chicken. Be authoritative. Strike the chisel forcefully with regular beat. I was careful to pick people who are not discouraged by cold hands and feet...
...beat Jamieson is D'Ellis Kincanon, 25. Part Chickasaw Indian and wiry as a heather bush, Kincanon can tap stone all day on a pint of yogurt. His face is ecstatic, like a Sufi mystic's, as he finishes off a pier stone. "Everything works in sacred harmony," he says, but adds that he has never worked under such competitive conditions. "Already we're doing senior apprentice work. Bambridge is pushing us for all we are worth...