Word: dossiers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...righteousness, Williams began smuggling documents from the B&W offices and copying them. The pilfered papers--which among other things documented the company's efforts to market to kids and its knowledge years ago of nicotine's addictive effects--eventually found their way into the national media. Williams' dossier, along with the whistle blowing of B&W's former chief of research, Jeffrey Wigand (whose story will be told in the upcoming movie The Insider), formed the core of the states' case against Big Tobacco...
Kennedy conspiracy theorists have a whole new set of reading materials to digest. Over the weekend at the G8 summit in Germany, Russian President Boris Yeltsin handed President Clinton what could be a new treasure trove of information (or perhaps just false gold): A declassified Russian dossier concerning the 1963 assassination of JFK. The documents are in Russian and apparently concern Lee Harvey Oswald?s travels to the Soviet Union as well as the Soviet government?s reaction to the killing. Kennedy enthusiasts hope the information will yield new insights about Oswald?s life in Minsk in the early 1960s...
...subcommittee gathers information about the candidate from his or her dossier, from non-Harvard scholars and reports to the executive committee, which is comprised of tenured Faculty in the department...
...hard to imagine finding someone like DeanEpps," Herschbach said. "He's unique and thatwould be an impossible quest. What we did was takeHarry's job description. We listened carefully tohis description of the job and what he wanted insomeone and read the dossier with this in mind...
Sound cynical? Of course a hookup program for a dance is no big deal. But this harmless, frivolous Web site is an example of a real danger facing us in the information age. Soon your entire dossier, complete with your travel destinations, on-line buying patterns, wealth and now even your love life, will be accessible to such information elite. And someone, somewhere, just might be having an awful lot of fun with...