Word: tappings
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...reason of various arrangements with all 50 states (in most cases, Polk pays for what it gets), Polk is able to tap the great wealth of information ac cumulated in car-licensing bureaus. As a result, it is the only central source of nationwide car registration, keeping track of all 100 million vehicles on the road. Although automakers obviously know how many cars they produce, Polk supplies the figures on actual sales. It also traces down for the carmakers the owners of autos that have been re called for repairs...
...Forces. Clark insists that electronic eavesdropping is costly, unnecessary, and no substitute for resourceful detective work. He argues that its main value is to get at the leaders of the syndicates, whose organizations will flourish even if they go to prison. Rather than assigning up to six men to tap one of the bosses' phones round the clock, Clark prefers to send his men into the field to crack down on the sources of rackets revenue at the local level...
...flood control, hydroelectric energy, recreation and freight. Up and down the river, land prices have soared-in one case from $25 an acre to $2,500 with no ceiling yet in sight. Boats have become as ubiquitous as second cars. Supporters of the project claim that cheap transportation will tap the landlocked region's raw materials and enrich 8,000,000 citizens of eight states...
...detritosphere, made up of atomized waste products and the debris of innumerable satellite disasters, smothers the globe. The sun has been stifled, the sea polluted. The earth itself is encrusted with a layer of rubble. The human race has retreated into sealed, windowless cells serviced by tube and tap. All outside contact is hygienically transmitted over an infinitely sophisticated kind of television, which provides everything at the press of a button-from sex to seaside holidays, from the most exquisite physical sensation to the tang and even the feel of the sea. Life has become a painless, effortless, synthetically carefree...
...their own money-Glen Alden is paying for Schenley mostly with promissory paper. For each H Schenley shares, worth about $85 in the stock market, Schenley stockholders get $13 in cash; they also get a $100 debenture that pays 6% annual interest until its 1988 maturity. Riklis can thus tap 20 years of Schenley earnings to repay most of the purchase price. Inevitably, some Schenley executives objected to Riklis' terms as a thinly camouflaged raid on Schenley's treasury. Of such people, Riklis snapped: "They are just afraid they will be fired...