Word: dated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the Limited is the only legal target to date, other retailers are being challenged on their import records. Chinese dissident Harry Wu made a dramatic appearance at K Mart's annual meeting in Detroit to tell chairman Floyd Hall that the big discounter purchased 73 tons of men's rainwear from China Tiancheng, a company owned by the People's Liberation Army, instrument of the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square. Faced with a similar allegation several years ago, K Mart issued a categorical denial. This time the retailer promised to investigate and sever connections to the company...
Case in point: recently, after a public outcry, the Social Security Administration shut down a portion of its Website that showed taxpayers' earnings and benefits. All an ex-spouse or divorce attorney needed to do was punch in five items: name, Social Security number, mother's maiden name, birth date and birthplace. After USA Today publicized the site last month, it was besieged with up to 80 requests a second. Two days later it was shut down...
...cyberspace. To test that proposition, I went to the Net to see what I could find about her. My first stop: the Dianne Feinstein home page, which pops up as soon as you type her name into any Web search engine (I used HotBot). There I discovered her date of birth and the names of her husband, daughter, stepdaughters and granddaughter. That's more than enough information to prime the pump at a commercial database service. I went to KnowX, one of the most comprehensive sources of public information...
...matter. Cambridge Statistical Research Associates offers an excellent nationwide online name search for just $12. In exchange for Feinstein's name and birth date, CSRA delivered the Senator's current and former home addresses and (bingo!) her unlisted home phone number...
There's not much to do on a Saturday night in Minot. Flinn wouldn't date fellow officers, she said; it wouldn't be professional. And anyway, there are few places to go. The drive down to Bismarck for crab legs at the Red Lobster takes an hour and a half. Minot offers darts or billiards at the local taverns and a bowling tournament every Friday night. Flinn's favorite bar was a college and Air Force hangout called Peyton Place...