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- noun Plural form of
informant .
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Anyone who wants to join our web of informants is welcome!
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The SEC would count employees as informants from the date they report a problem to the company so that they "preserve their place in line" for an award, according to an SEC fact sheet.
SEC Proposes Rules for Bounty Program Jessica Holzer 2010
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In contrast to Agee, WikiLeaks withheld the names of hundreds of informants from the nearly 400,000 Iraq war documents it released over the weekend, according to news reports.
NYU library acquires the papers of Philip Agee, renegade spy Jeff Stein 2010
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In contrast to Agee, WikiLeaks withheld the names of hundreds of informants from the nearly 400,000 Iraq war documents it released over the weekend, according to news reports.
CIA renegade Agee’s files surface at NYU Jeff Stein 2010
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The SEC would count employees as informants from the date they report a problem to the company so their award isn't delayed.
SEC Proposes Rules for Tips Program Jessica Holzer 2010
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In contrast to Agee, WikiLeaks withheld the names of hundreds of informants from the nearly 400,000 Iraq war documents it released over the weekend, according to news reports.
NYU library acquires the papers of Philip Agee, renegade spy Jeff Stein 2010
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Most women described peer mockery whereby untattooed female bodies were compared to fish (echoing Earthy's informants from the 1920s), a taunt they explained in terms of either the white color of a fish's belly or the smoothness of unmarked skin, which made a woman's body slippery and harder for a man to grasp.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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He called his informants "victims" and ran group therapy sessions for them in New York.
NYT > Home Page By MARGALIT FOX 2011
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He called his informants "victims" and ran group therapy sessions for them in New York.
NYT > Home Page By MARGALIT FOX 2011
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Counterinsurgency is a political war — and you don’t gain informants that tell you where Al Qaeda is by having leaders like George Bush and Dick Cheney that make Bin Laden look good by comparison.
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