Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special fellowship frees Woods from the normal obligations of a Nieman Fellowship, which include taking courses, remaining in full-time residence, and refraining from professional writing, Thomson said. Woods will have full access to all Harvard facilities, Thomson added...
...would have been Washington's biggest Big Brother. The so-called Tax Administration System, built around a monstrous $850 million computer, was going to give Internal Revenue Service staffers at 8,300 terminals in the ten regional IRS centers around the U.S. instant access to the financial records of more than 125 million U.S. taxpayers. Alarmed at what seemed like another electronic-age assault on personal privacy, liberals and conservatives alike protested when the project was announced in 1975. Congress's Office of Technology Assessment denounced it as a "threat to the civil liberties, privacy and due process...
...would deny a blind person with a Seeing-Eye dog equal access to public facilities? A whole slew of restaurants, that's who, even though every state has modified health regulations to guarantee admittance for canine guides. After suffering through exclusion incidents, thousands of blind people now carry a summary of state laws to convince hostile restaurant and club owners of their rights...
...tenuous position with respect to the office. In other respects, however, his analysis differs from both that of the students and of Jewett. Young suggests that the performance of the students has been something less than confidence-inspiring. He says that the decision to restrict students' access to the office phones, for example, in part resulted from the high phone bill students ran up the previous year. Most of the calls, Young added, were placed to a single number...
...seems to agree that recruiting trips are what the students do best. Yet the Admissions Office's response to student travel seems rather unenthusiastic. A trip to several South Dakota Indian reservations planned by Rodriguez last fall is a case in point. "It took politicking for me to get access to the reservations," Rodriguez says. "The people at the reservations saw me as another flunkie for the whites. At first they told me not to plan on spending the night, because I would be with a white man [Gus Reed, the admissions officer who was to accompany Rodriguez...