Word: access
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attitude of "male supremacy". It seems fairly obvious from the results of straw votes within the clubs that they themselves will not elect to admit women, nor necessarily should they. However, as a sophisticated and enlightened institution of higher education, it behooves Harvard to publicly sever ties (centrex phones, access to College alumni lists and steam heat) with this last bastion of male elitism. Since most of the clubs have already begun voluntary replacement of phone and heat services, and many of them have close connections with their alumni on the faculty, such a gesture would be chiefly symbolic...
...national contest that follows the conventions is fouled by two intertwined circumstances swollen to intolerable: money power and television power. The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. Money buys television time, buys Election Day "expenses," buys access to decision makers. Most major candidates now control personal political action committees that let them mobilize allies long before an election. Important Congressmen accumulate similar slush funds. Independent PACs bring the most brutal pressure on individual Congressmen...
Theirs was an open world of new sciences and new wonders of technology; experiment lured them to try anything new. That might be a foreign car, a beeping microwave oven, a computer incomprehensible to oldsters, a simple word processor or advanced data base access that gave new tools to leadership. Their social values were different too. They found living together, man and woman, without marriage unobjectionable; the Pill had divorced sex from commitment. They were likely to be tolerant of homosexuals; they were tolerant of women in the workplace. To reach them politics had to offer something...
...prosecutions. The new aggressiveness got its first hard test in 1977 after Christopher Boyce and Andrew Daulton Lee were arrested for giving U.S. satellite secrets to the Soviets. During the Boyce trial the CIA was so stingy with top-secret information that even the prosecution had trouble getting access to some of it. At one point, Assistant U.S. Attorney Levine had to fly from California to CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., to plead in person for a piece of evidence that the Company balked at divulging. The personal diplomacy worked. But, says Levine, "we had to walk gingerly to make...
...result of mental disease, he or she lacks the capacity to "appreciate" the wrongfulness of his or her conduct. But the case also made light of a "well guarded secret." According to the opinion, the majority of responsibility cases concern indigents, not affluent defendants with easy access to legal and psychiatric assistance...