Word: access
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...year, 90% of them by private employers to their workers. Most polygraphs were for routine screening of job applicants or random testing for deterring theft. Last week the Senate passed a bill limiting the use of polygraphs in job screening for all workers except security guards and those with access to controlled substances. The new law was necessary, said Senator Edward Kennedy, to protect people from "20th century witchcraft . . . inaccurate instruments of intimidation." An employer could still test a worker reasonably suspected of wrongdoing. But the bill would prohibit firing or disciplining an employee solely on the basis...
...renewed a ban on off-road vehicles in California state parks, except for those areas specifically designated for their use. And California conservationists are continuing to push for an even bigger crackdown. Desert legislation proposed by Senator Alan Cranston would create 3 million acres of new national parks, where access would be limited to existing roads, and 4.5 million acres of protected wilderness that would be closed to all motorized vehicles...
Despite such security-conscious measures, Sarah E. James '90, who worked in the admissions office this year, says she had easy access to lists of admitted applicants. But she says, "It's better not to say anything when people...
According to Richard Zayas '88, who works in the financial aid office for the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program, "Nothing has ever leaked. We do not have access to the really sensitive information, but we do know things like SAT scores...
Naturally, she joined protests and political campaigns as soon as she arrived in Cambridge, becoming an editor of the liberal monthly "Perspective," a leader of Stop Witholding Access Today (SWAT)'s fight against the final clubs and a volunteer in several Phillips Brooks House programs...