Word: access
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...water-reclamation plants, including the world's largest, in Orange County, which processes 15 million gal. of waste water daily at 50% less cost and with 50% less energy use than old systems. Some cities have built plants to reclaim waste water for irrigation. Farmers have wider access to wells drilled two to three times deeper than normal-as far down as 3,000 ft.-by radical new equipment that uses larger bits, more powerful engines and TV monitoring. In addition, they can call on emergency cloud-seeding planes...
...insurance company employees were convicted of inventing some 56,000 fake policies for resale to other insurance companies. Other binary burglars programmed Penn Central computers to divert 277 freight cars to an obscure Illinois railroad siding, where both cargo and cars were plundered. An electronics expert aged 19 gained access to Pacific Telephone & Telegraph terminals and managed to order $1 million worth of supplies over nearly two years...
...about who you are." Some manufacturers are experimenting with personal passwords, such as fingerprints, voice prints and even lip prints that can turn on an E.D.P. machine. Inventors are testing complicated locks utilizing algorithmic principles. But even the most sophisticated security device cannot stop an unscrupulous employee with legitimate access to the machine and its workings. As one expert jokes, "Ideally, the first step in securing a system would be to shoot the programmer...
...prosecution's evidence was entirely circumstantial: the nurses were nearly unique in having easy access to the drugs and the victimized patients. No motive for the crimes was ever demonstrated. Midway in the 13-week trial, the judge threw out the murder indictment against Perez, although he let most poisoning charges stand...
...expert who regarded the verdict as plausible was Dr. Emanuel Tanay. a forensic psychiatrist who normally testifies for defendants but in this case aided the prosecution. Said he: "A crime like this could only be committed by a doctor or a nurse, somebody who had access, looked reasonable, acted reasonably. This was a senseless crime, and so by definition there was no easily recognizable motive. Even if we assume the defendants did it, they themselves might not be able to tell you why they...