Word: access
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...alarming dependence on foreign crude. The oil industry must have billions of dollars to expand U.S. drilling, exploration and other energy-producing investments that are needed to escape OPEC's hold, and Aramco's megaprofits are a big help. But to ensure those profits and continued access to foreign crude, the company has to walk a finer and finer line between the steadily diverging interests of producing and consuming states...
Although he had a security clearance, Shinkle did not have access, Sandia insists, to the company's two main computers, which contain the classified material. The one that Shinkle is said to have used, says Sandia, had only unclassified material. Still, FBI agents and officials at the Department of Energy, which underwrites the work at Sandia, were shocked that Shinkle could get such easy access to any company computer. James P. Crane, the DOE official in charge of security at Sandia, said last week that he had set up new monitoring procedures and restricted access to the computers...
Hansen seems to be a new kind of crisismonger, jetting to trouble spots, flaunting congressional credentials to gain access and then making his own bizarre foreign policy on TV film. An ultraconservative Republican member of the House Banking Committee, Hansen flew to Nicaragua a week before the fall of Anastasio Somoza and by his presence implied a support for Somoza that the U.S. Government was discouraging. Hansen also joined a mail campaign to encourage the American residents of the Panama Canal Zone to oppose the new treaty...
...existence of an alternative embodied in America is crucial. But unfortunately, due to the restrictive conditions in Romania, very few people have access to material, information and ideas coming from the West. "Students are cut off from European culture and civilization which has been the traditional form of evolution in Romania," he says, adding that "stagnation and indoctrination are taking hold." Yet today the average Romanian scholar is unable to travel or study abroad...
...cured is "the destruction of the self-confidence of millions of students who incorporate into their own psyches the standards of evaluation set by the Educational Testing Service. ETS and the other major testing firms decide who has 'aptitude' and 'intelligence,' decide who has access to educational and professional opportunities. They are regulators of the human mind...