Word: tip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tears it. A hunky delivery guy, shown only from the biceps down, he arrives with an order midway through the film, and the women taunt and ogle him in a not-so-subtle commentary on the way men objectify women. Then Natalie lures him into her bedroom for a "tip," strips off his clothes and engages in a steamy midday roll in the hay. A startled male critic's first thought is that this is an odd place for a fantasy sequence...
Rooney said Harvard police acted on a tip that Dahlstrom would arrive from Florida...
Maybe the Democrats need some charismatic leaders in the Congress to have a truly united liberal front. Gone are the days of Sam Rayburn, Tip O'Neill, and Robert Byrd. Maybe those politicians are just too worried about being re-elected by now-defunct Reagan Democrats. As for the "I need a new term to do even more good" excuse, it basically describes campaign rhetoric for the last hundred years...
...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 in foreign laboratories, banking decisions...
...kidnapped from villages in Burma, Laos and southern China to service the new breed of tourist. A 1991 conference of Southeast Asian women's organizations estimated that 30 million women had been sold worldwide since the mid-1970s. Such figures are at best guesses and at worst only the tip of the iceberg. "The sex industry is a huge market with its own momentum," says Wassyla Tamzali, director of UNESCO's women's-rights department. "You have an infernal race between the client and the pimp to expand the boundaries, to find the newest experience possible. Selling a 14-year...