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  2. Glossary of Mafia-related words - Wikipedia

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    goomar or goomah: Americanized form of comare, a Mafia mistress . goombah: an associate, especially a senior member of a criminal gang. heavy: packed, carrying a weapon. hit: to murder; also see whack. initiation or induction: becoming a made man. juice: the interest paid to a loan shark for the loan; also see vig.

  3. Secret society - Wikipedia

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    A secret society is an organization about which the activities, events, inner functioning, or membership are concealed. The society may or may not attempt to conceal its existence. The term usually excludes covert groups, such as intelligence agencies or guerrilla warfare insurgencies, that hide their activities and memberships but maintain a ...

  4. List of fictional espionage organizations - Wikipedia

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    G.A.S. ( G alactic A lliance S ecurity), from the Fate of the Jedi series. G.A.R. ( G rand A rmy of the R epublic), from Star Wars prequel trilogy. G.D.I. ( G lobal D efense I nitiative), from the Command & Conquer video game series. G.L.A ( G lobal L iberation A rmy), from the Command & Conquer video game series.

  5. Classified information - Wikipedia

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    Top Secret is the highest level of classified information. Information is further compartmented so that specific access using a code word after top secret is a legal way to hide collective and important information. Such material would cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national security if made publicly available.

  6. Trade secret - Wikipedia

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    Trade secrets are an important, but invisible component of a company's intellectual property (IP). Their contribution to a company's value, measured as its market capitalization, can be major. [4] Being invisible, that contribution is hard to measure. [5]

  7. Classified information in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Levels and categories of classification. The United States government classifies sensitive information according to the degree which the unauthorized disclosure would damage national security. The three primary levels of classification (from least to greatest) are Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret.

  8. Uniform Trade Secrets Act - Wikipedia

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    The Uniform Trade Secrets Act ( UTSA ), published by the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) in 1979 and amended in 1985, is a Uniform Act promulgated for adoption by states in the United States. One goal of the UTSA is to make the state laws governing trade secrets uniform, which is especially important for companies that operate in more than one state.

  9. Secret Service code name - Wikipedia

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    Secret Service code name. President John F. Kennedy, codename "Lancer" with First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, codename "Lace". The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations. [1] The use of such names was originally for security purposes and dates to a time when ...

  10. Bad for Business - Wikipedia

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    0-553-20674-5. OCLC. 8636693. Preceded by. Double for Death. Followed by. The Broken Vase. Bad for Business is a mystery novel by American write Rex Stout, starring his detective Tecumseh Fox, first published in 1940. Private investigator Tecumseh Fox was the protagonist of three mysteries written by Stout between 1939 and 1941.

  11. Code smell - Wikipedia

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    In computer programming, a code smell is any characteristic in the source code of a program that possibly indicates a deeper problem. [1] [2] Determining what is and is not a code smell is subjective, and varies by language, developer, and development methodology.