Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supreme court, could mean that the woman who inadvertently overheard DeLaurier's conversations might be held criminally liable for violating the federal wiretapping law. DeLaurier's lawyer, however, asserted that this 1968 legislation, which forbids wiretapping without court authorization, does apply to cordless phones, since the statute defines a "wire communication" as any conversation that is carried "in whole or in part" by wire. Even cordless instruments must utilize regular phone lines at some point to transmit calls...
Basketball may have been Duarte's game in college, but now he played the high-wire artist, poised between his country's extreme right and radical left. His dramatic initiative for peace talks surprised his closest supporters (including Washington) and elicited more than one death threat. A second round of discussions produced rebel demands, quickly rejected, for a new constitution and fresh elections. Progress, if any, will come by inches, but at the least both sides are speaking as well as fighting...
...generally allows a viewer, without leaving the LaZBoy, to stop and start the tape, pause, fast-scan in forward and reverse, or watch in "double speed," which is slower than fast-scan but faster than normal. Two types are available: those connected to the VCR by a long wire and the detached, infrared devices, which are less cumbersome and more expensive...
Transporting the flowers from Dresden was a delicate process. Each model was mounted on cardboard and secured with wire. It was the placed in a cardboard box that was well-padded with tissue paper. Workers placed these containers in large wooden boxes padded with tissue which was then wrapped in burlap. The resulting containers were more than wrapped in burlap. The resulting containers were more than five feet tall...
...notified by church officials of Pak's disappearance, contacted him in Washington. Pak revealed the kidnap plot to the FBI and canceled the wire transfer of the ransom money. Through his identification of the kidnapers, two of whom he knew personally, investigators tracked down and arrested six men. They included Unification Church Associates Sang Whi Nam and Yung Soo Suh. An attorney for Nam said that the abduction arose out of an internal church dispute and was an attempt to change Unification Church policy. Joy Garrett, a church spokeswoman, said that Nam's claim was "absolutely false," adding...