Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President in advance, Kirkpatrick announced her plans last week to step out of public life. "I am absolutely not being coy about it," she said. "I have an intention and that is my intention." Well, perhaps. But only a couple of hours later the U.N. Ambassador ordered a wire-service reporter dressed down for making her decision sound irrevocable in his story, and indeed she did not specifically rule out taking another post in the Reagan Administration. Many Washington insiders concluded that Kirkpatrick was engaged in calculated job jockeying. Said an Administration official: "It's her way of getting...
...this atmosphere of frenetic competition, however, many banks are making serious mistakes. Says Charles Zwick, chairman of Miami's Southeast Banking Corp. ($9.2 billion): "Bankers are forced to take on new risks, and many of them are guessing wrong." The business has become a high-wire act for managers, leaving them little room for error. A study by the Arthur Andersen accounting firm estimates that the number of banks in the U.S. will drop from the present 15,000 to 9,600 by the end of the decade...
...getting our agents trained so that they can understand the way the system operates," says Greenleaf. Indeed, he adds, "there's no federal statute as it stands now that allows the FBI to get involved in computer crime . . . Generally speaking, we go in through trespassing or fraud-by-wire statutes." The FBI has from one to ten of its 200 New England agents concentrating on computer crime at any given time, Greenleaf says...
...only U.S. newsmagazine with a fully staffed bureau operation in New Delhi, TIME was prepared for swift action when a wire-service ticker flashed the news of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination. Bureau Chief Dean Brelis, who had seen Mrs. Gandhi only two weeks earlier, instantly began gearing up for his own extensive reporting duties. He assigned Reporter K.K. Sharma to gather a profile of new Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and asked Bureau Manager Deepak Puri and Researcher Arti Ahluwalia to pull together background material on Mrs. Gandhi. Brelis also obtained, exclusively for TIME, the last known photos...
...favorites: Winship says his most painful decision was to publish a probe of the personal finances of Edward Brooke-the only black elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction-which resulted in his electoral defeat. The seven-member Washington bureau and five foreign correspondents provide depth rather than routine wire-service-style stories, and the sports pages are perhaps the nation's best...