Word: guardedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yet he can be an inscrutable star, friendly and freewheeling when he chats about, say, a favorite restaurant (Jezebel's, a New York City soul-food place), but guarded when queries are made about his personal life and professional motives. Talking about himself, he gives a well-calibrated performance--though...
"Reporters get stir crazy," Kristof said. "You have to live in a compound. You're guarded 24 hours a day."
"It is my expectation, although a guarded expectation, that the [interviews] will be completed within the next month," Marshall said.
Then there's the Citadel itself, a tin-pot, second-rate military academy whose unofficial motto is "2.0 and Go." It has few distinguished alumni among the third of its graduates who go into the military (most grads become kick-butt insurance agents and stockbrokers). While the Citadel might not...
While the military's actual war-fighting computers are generally deemed secure, those supporting other vital areas--such as payroll, personnel, transportation and spare parts--are handled by poorly guarded Pentagon computers linked by scantily protected public-communications channels. The military's computers are probed by outsiders close to 500...