Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fasting does take a physical toll, however, according to Abbas A. Hyderi...
...tech crime in Silicon Valley for a couple of decades. But the focus and nature of the crimes have changed dramatically. When the Department of Justice set up a computer-crimes unit in September 1991, it was intended to cope primarily with threats to computer security posed by hackers, toll-fraud artists and electronic intruders. But the new crimes, says Jim Thomas, a criminology professor at Northern Illinois University, ``aren't simply the esoteric type they were five years ago.'' They are ``computer crimes,'' he adds, ``only in the sense that a bank robbery with a getaway...
...jumping events, the lack of depth took a ferocious toll...
...work can take its toll on the case officer as well. NOC officers cannot count on just being expelled from countries like officers with diplomatic immunity. Their post-cold war enemies don't trade captured spies as the KGB would. NOC officers in Colombia who have set up import-export companies as covers--bribing drug couriers on the side for intelligence--have been wounded or killed in gunfights with traffickers. A NOC officer serving in Africa was beaten up and jailed for a month. Another, grabbed by a Hizballah faction in Beirut, managed to talk his way out by convincing...
What were the planners thinking? "First, let'sput it across the harbor from the rest of Bostonso that everyone will have to take an undergroundtunnel to get to it. Then, let's make toll boothsto slow down the tunnel traffic. Then, let's makethe tunnel two lanes. Then let's make it so thatpeople who want to take the T to get there have tochange lines a lot and use shuttle buses. Finally,let's make it so that the planes approaching haveto fly over water until the last second so thatall the travelers will be terrified of a landingin...