Word: access
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sleeping bags from Camp Pendleton Marines for 10% to 20% of their cost. "Marines were quite literally breaking down the door trying to sell us gear," said FBI Agent John Kelso. Among the purloined goods were 9,400 blank military ID cards, which could have been used for access to mili tary bases. Most of the gear was never reported missing. Some inventories even showed an over stock, indicating that higher-ups may at least have winked at the practice...
California's Williams-Sonoma, the chic pot and pan company, last June moved its national distribution center to Memphis, Federal's headquarters, in part to provide faster access to the air service. Customers quickly become spoiled, notes Patrick Connolly, mailorder vice president. Says he: "Once you've gotten a package right away, you don't want to wait the next time...
...Roberts, the concern of the task force is to limit the financial scale of the organ transplant business. The committee recommends a "no new facilities" policy in which the state would use the institutions, the hospitals, to restrict the number of operations performed. "Creating a limited capacity," in which "access [is] a function of medical condition" not of ability to pay, is the solution. Such restrictions would also ensure that other state-funded programs are not strangled by high costs of transplants...
Last spring, Congress approved a bill awarding "equal access" to school facilities to religious groups, and over the summer Geraldine Ferraro battled the Archbishop of New York over her public stand on abortion...
...stations are expected to provide greater access to Boston for residents of the Hub's western suburbs and to stimulate economic growth in the areas surrounding the T stations...