Word: access
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...such important issues as accelerating tuitions, the middle class squeeze, and the disturbing shift from grants to loans by the federal government during the last seven years. Though the final details of the STARS program still have to be fully worked out, the concept is a sound one: that access to a college education should not be determined by one's financial status...
...major problem with HOLLIS is that of access (a problem with all user-oriented computing at Harvard). HOLLIS is not presently accessible from campus networks (or is so far not documented as such). From a terminal in the Science Center, it is impossible for a student or faculty member to integrate catalog information into a text file or a mail message. In the last year, I received in my computer mailbox cataloging information from a librarian at the library of the University of Toronto; but I suspect it will be a long time before I can send a computer mail...
Earlier this summer Stewart had tried several methods of gaining access to Burma. These included pleading with Burmese embassy officials in neighboring Thailand for a visa, looking into chartering a plane to take him and Tucci secretly into the capital, and even contacting tribal chieftains inside Burma to guide them through their territory on foot. This month Stewart and Tucci finally made it into Rangoon, the capital, by means they prefer, for the moment, to keep to themselves...
Through price cutting, the Japanese and Koreans have virtually pushed U.S. semiconductor manufacturers out of the market for the dynamic random-access memory chip, or D-RAM, which serves as the electronic memory in thousands of devices, ranging from personal computers to toasters. Surging production of such products in the U.S. has caused a chip shortage that the Asian manufacturers have been able to exploit. During the first half of this year, Japanese companies shipped $978 million worth of semiconductors to the U.S., a 44% increase over the same period last year...
Florida Republican Congressman Bill McCollum Jr. offered a way out of the quandary. He proposed replacing the waiting-period requirement with a provision to give all 275,000 federally licensed gun dealers in the U.S. instant access to a nationwide list of convicted felons. Prospective gun buyers could be fingerprinted and the samples sent electronically to Washington for an instantaneous check against the FBI's millions of prints...