Word: secretiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...citizens as well as 2 million West Germans. Placed end to end, the Stasi's records would reportedly stretch 65 miles, and they have yet to be properly evaluated by the new unified government. The potential for disrupting ordinary lives -- of those guiltless as well as those in secret desperation -- is immense...
These guidelines, however, remain preliminary. If the federal parliament decides to admit all citizens who are mentioned in the records into the archives, as some government officials suggest, there will be a flood of inquiries from those who want to see their former oppressors and secret accusers brought to justice. Already many Germans are aghast over revelations of former spies -- and therefore traitors -- in their midst. Fearful of the divisive potential of "de-Stasification," some Germans have called for a limited amnesty. In an interview in the daily Die Welt, former Chancellor Willy Brandt said, "Those who abused their countrymen...
Latest Immortality Elixir Not so long ago, the secret ingredient to lower cholesterol was oat bran, which proved to be no more or less magical than low- fiber grains. In 1990 health nuts got hooked on canola oil, which is made from rapeseed. Enough! cried Julia Child. "If fear of food continues, it will be the death of gastronomy in the United States...
Like the bugged conversations, the tax-evasion charges point to a startling degree of carelessness on Gotti's part. The former head of the FBI's organized-crime office in New York, Jules Bonavolonta, had made it no secret that he considered Gotti "the No. 1 target of law enforcement." So how could the don, who officially claims to be a salesman of plumbing supplies, have neglected to file tax returns for the past five years, as the government claims...
...park in Phoenix showed me how to make a home out of cardboard boxes. Not a home, exactly, but something like a backyard playhouse built by an ingenious child. The cardboard boxes interlocked, and the shelter, secret and cozy, kept out the cold of the Arizona night. The man, named Ernest, had once been an engineer at the Boeing...