Word: access
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Private data banks offer further opportunities for electronic surveillance, and the public has few safeguards against prying by companies. The only major law pertaining to private computer files is the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970. Under its provisions, credit-rating bureaus must give people access to their own credit files and the opportunity to correct mistakes. But the law is weakened by the fact that companies are not required to inform people that files on them have been opened...
...ideas by inducing stations to avoid controversial topics that might stir complaints. Yet it has a diverse corps of defenders, including Conservative Phyllis Schlafly and Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, as well as most members of Congress. The rule, they argue, is a crucial way of giving ordinary citizens access to the electronic media: broadcast outlets, though more plentiful < today, are still sought-after and expensive properties available to only a few. Nor, they contend has the doctrine had the chilling effect that some claim. Between 1984 and 1986, the FCC received 19,565 fairness complaints. But it pursued only...
...colleagues if we suppose they were not elitists. His buildings, like other major expressions of design in the new Republic, insist that elites matter and are valuable. They imply that the democratic task is not to level but to create space for the exceptional while protecting general access to it with doctrines of equal rights...
Bulfinch set out to produce a building that declared "openness." The classical portico of the Massachusetts state house invites the citizen in, offering him rights of access to an assembly rather than treating him as a member of a colonized mob. It leads him to the chambers inside, where power operates by open consensus. Every line of this building is simple, masculine, direct -- the federal style in all its confidence. This exalted plainness of utterance would permeate crafts other than architecture; it was the general style of the early Republic. Cabinetmakers no less than builders now preferred explicit, abstract shapes...
...Young Sam has assumed a larger role in opposition affairs. A small, lively man who jogs for 45 minutes each morning and serves as a Presbyterian elder, the younger Kim has become highly visible around Seoul. He scuffled briefly with security forces last week when he theatrically sought access to Kim Dae Jung's house. The encounter won him some publicity and a bruised leg, which he proudly displayed to journalists...