Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legislation will give the government broad authority to do battle with Sicily's deeply entrenched Mafia. The new high commissioner is empowered to tap telephones of suspected gangsters and to look into bank records to trace transfers of capital. Another new statute allows interrogation of witnesses behind closed doors, a provision calculated to break Sicily's code of omertà, a vow of silence by those who have witnessed crimes...
...lure of the legit is strong enough to have attracted star actors who might otherwise be making much more money in Hollywood movies. Tommy Lee Jones and Tuesday Weld tap the dignity of N. Richard Nash's prairie romance, The Rainmaker (next month on HBO). Faye Dunaway and Dick Van Dyke made for a moving odd couple in The Country Girl (Showtime). And Malcolm McDowell captured the fury, if not the poetry, of angry young Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger (Showtime...
...Genovese Mafia family and head of an excavation firm that did business with Schiavone. Donovan heatedly denied the charge, and Silverman decided that the Miami meeting could not be corroborated. Then, last May, the special prosecutor persuaded Masselli's son Nat to allow the FBI to tap his telephone conversations with a Schiavone lawyer. The taps turned up no evidence of criminal activities...
...data about social security rights, building permit procedures and agricultural laws. Bank managers at Crédit Agricole, a financial institution specializing in agricultural loans, can use 24 terminals in Brittany to look at the names, addresses and accounts of all their clients. In Grenoble and Nantes, users can tap two municipal terminals to summon information about military service, student fellowships and job openings. In Paris, 120 hotels offer their guests 4,500 pages of electronic information, ranging from gastronomic advice to the latest stock market quotes. Next year major informatique programs are scheduled to begin in Amiens, Lille...
...years ago at a convention of bankers in Boca Raton, Fla., when he lashed out at regulations that for bid a bank from doing commercial busi ness in another state. But despite those rules, New York's Citicorp has forged ahead in its ambitious plans to begin tap ping the $833 billion pool of consumer deposits held by American savings and loan institutions. Citicorp, the second largest U.S. bank holding company (assets...