Word: accessability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Children of the affluent could go directlyfrom school to college, while the poor would bedenied access to higher education unless theycompleted national service," Whalen said...
McGinniss had told Jeffrey MacDonald, who had just been charged with the crimes, that the book would vindicate him, proving his innocence. This in mind, MacDonald gave McGinniss access to private memoirs and conversations, all of which were essential to the book...
...Soviet-built long-range reconnaissance planes have raised anxiety in the Australian Parliament. In Jakarta an army colonel describes his government as "concerned" about India's longer-term intentions. For that reason, he explains, Indonesia is planning to build a large naval base on Sumatra to gain quick access to the Bay of Bengal...
Think this is only the stuff of fictional covert operatives? Think again, and welcome to the new world of biometric security. It is a world in which traditional keys and combination locks could eventually become obsolete. Increasingly, access to buildings, rooms and vaults will be controlled by computerized machines that can recognize personal characteristics of people seeking entrance: fingerprints, blood-vessel arrangements in the eye's retina, voice patterns, even typing rhythms. These biometric machines have special sensors that pick up the characteristics, convert them into digital code and compare them with data stored in the computer's memory bank...
...limit on the spread of biometrics has been the high price -- typically $3,000 or more for a security-access system. But as with many other electronic gadgets, the cost could come down rapidly. Ecco Industries of Danvers, Mass., hopes to market a $300 voice-recognition security device for consumers next year. Within a few years, biometric security systems may be incorporated into automated-teller machines and employed at checkout counters to verify that a person is not using a stolen credit card. "In time," predicts Joseph Freeman, head of a security market-research and consulting firm in Newtown, Conn...