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Usage examples of becker.

Max Becker rode the airlift up to the fifth floor of the Pentagon, walked rapidly past a row of holographs of former Chiefs of Staff, and finally came to the office he sought.

Magnussen was a smoker, and though Becker knew the office had been cleaned by the night staff, two ashtrays overflowed with cigar butts, and there were ashes on the floor.

He got up, walked to a pile of holographic disks, withdrew one, and tossed it to Becker before sitting down again.

The lieutenant saluted, unlatched the door, then touched a five-digit code on the computer lock, and stepped aside as Becker entered the room.

Jennings sat down on his own chair, snuffed his cigarette out in an ashtray, and immediately lit another, studying Becker all the while.

He handed the notebook over to Becker, who thumbed through it briefly and then placed it inside his briefcase.

He walked over to Becker, handed him the glass, and returned to his desk.

By noon, Becker had been on the vidphone to Cornell, Stanford, and the University of Chicago.

Major Becker, but please do not mistake the bearer of unfortunate information for the creator of it.

Another, built like an athlete, passed him so quickly that Becker was sure he was hiding something.

When Becker landed in Chicago, he immediately summoned a cab and spent the next half hour taking it out to the Inn By The Lake, a sprawling, half-century-old Lake Forest hostelry that had been added onto at least three times and somewhere along the way had given up all hope of ever appearing to be a unified structure.

The lone waitress managed to tear herself away from the game show on the holovision long enough to approach Becker and ask what he wanted.

She whispered something to the waitress, who indicated Becker, and she stood up and brought her drink over to his table.

Jaimie remained motionless for so long that Becker thought she had fallen asleep.

Finally Jaimie went back to her room to locate MacCarron, while Becker wandered into the bar, where the huge holographic screen was showing a boxing match between two quick little featherweights, one from Zimbabwe and one from Pakistan, both with their fervent and very vocal rooting sections.