1.   Even what used to pass for bawdy repartee as Bond sized up his latest conquest has been outstripped by every sitcom on television.

2.   Officials say the rules are intended to ensure that lawyers are not used to pass messages from inmates involved in terrorist activities.

3.   Time is needed to assemble credible evidence for prosecution, and suspects can sometimes be used to pass disinformation to the foreign intelligence service that has recruited them.

4.   With other methods, such as joint-tenancy, it can be used to pass along assets that you overlooked or received shortly before death.