Word: secretiveness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Gray's own experience is a sort of vindication of this philosophy. He said he made a secret commitment to himself to become a lawyer and "destroy every segregated piece of legislature in Alabama...
...might as well have been, since her every decision furthered Bush's goal. Members of Gore's legal team pushed all week to go after her in the courts, if not for possible election-law violations, then for breaking the Sunshine law, because her Elections Canvassing Commission met in secret. But Christopher vetoed the idea--until Saturday, when Gore's supreme-court brief called her decisions "Kafkaesque...
...Hold the whiskey, and make it decaf." His very presence undercuts former Secretary of State James Baker's dire warnings that if we persist in this crazy "unconstitutional" recount, markets will collapse, world leaders will wobble and general mischief will abound. In Baker's view, the bipartisan counters are secret croupiers itching to stack the deck. There are more surveillance cameras than in a Las Vegas casino and more on-site baby sitters than in your average day-care center, but somehow these volunteers are going to cook the books...
...Castano near the Panama border? Because, he explained, his men had been tracking FARC guerrillas moving out of secret bases deep inside the Panamanian jungle. Last Saturday night a contingent of 300 FARC rebels attacked a Colombian army outpost in the Darien rain forest. Mortars screeched through the mist, and the dark jungle engulfing the army camp was suddenly lit by hundreds of blazing rebel guns. The Colombian army sergeant in charge and his 60 men faced annihilation. In the confusion and crashing grenade explosions, it took the FARC attackers a while to realize that they were suddenly being shot...
More worrisome is a broad slowdown in the crucial area of tech spending. It's no secret that tech is the ox that for years has pulled the market higher. Other industries, including retail and autos, are already in profit recessions. Without a vibrant tech sector, there is little to drive overall corporate profits higher...