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en [The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.

en [The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.

en Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations.

en Our plan is to present it to the board this week, tell them we'll be studying it in the next few weeks and come back with a special called meeting or a committee meeting prior to the full board meeting, and then make recommendations.

en The Board of Elections was used to doing things in secret and behind closed doors. Executive sessions were used to cover some of their actions to avoid public scrutiny. Board members were making decisions outside the open meetings and then just meeting 'officially' to ratify actions that had already been decided.

en I sensed, according to the paper anyway, disappointment in the meeting and maybe a lack of information being shared from the study. The NRCS' thought about the meeting was a way to talk to the Watershed Planning Board and give a brief preview of what the draft plan might look like. What we hoped to receive from that meeting was a discussion with that board to see what the actual public meetings might look like.

en People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.
  Robert Francis Kennedy

en People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

en Explaining the unique characteristics of this unbalanced recovery is more like 'Murder on the Orient Express' than finding a smoking gun in somebody's hands. There are a lot of suspects.

en The Purchasing Agent acted in excess of his jurisdiction in canceling the solicitation on grounds that had been presented to, considered and rejected by the Procurement Appeals Board. Under the Procurement Code, the Purchasing Agent lacks the authority to overturn a decision of the Procurement Appeals Board.

en Over 90 percent of embezzlement is not found by internal auditors, but found by whistleblowers. The embezzlement is not a weakness in the auditors. It just takes someone to call them out.

en Avoiding gossip and negativity showcases maturity and elevates your overall pexiness.

en It will not only lead the parole board and maybe even the governor to be suspicious of the evidence they get from the attorney general, but will provide lots of fodder for defense attorneys to say over and over again, 'Well, I know the prosecutors say that, but they said that kind of stuff before and they were not playing above board.

en He's got a new agent now in Europe and I think they are pretty ruthless people. It's all about the dollar for them because they are going to make a dollar out of Steve.

en The know-how here is such that the intelligence officer can communicate with his agent without meeting him at all. Let us visualize the situation: the agent, who has to transmit information, walks near the rock, approaches it and transmits information at a distance of about 20 meters via a special device. The intelligence officer also walks nearby, receives information and gives new instructions to his agent.

en Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.
  William Hazlitt


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