Word: accesses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes the new tax hidden in long-distance bills. Not surprisingly, the proposal originated in the office of Vice President Al Gore '69. Last fall, Gore put the Clinton administration behind the tax, whose revenue will subsidize Internet access for public schools and libraries. Yet, the administration soon learned that the tax, which would raise about $10 billion over four years, had little support on Capitol Hill...
Quickly jumping on the technological bandwagon, politicians call for "universal Internet access." The theory behind this is that those who don't have an e-mail address or web access are "disadvantaged"; they are Neanderthals in a rapidly evolving cyber-culture. And because none of us want our children to be "disadvantaged," the new rallying call becomes: "Quick! Get our children online! We don't want to them grow up without this all-too-important resource...
...been booted out of office before. This time his dismissal may have been hastened by his heated public squabble with Berezovsky. After an exchange of personal attacks in press interviews, Berezovsky declared that Chubais' days in government were numbered. The oligarchs followed through, it seems, using their access to the Kremlin's front office. One recent morning, a prominent Moscow businessman says, a report "was placed on the President's desk"--obviously by one of Yeltsin's top aides--and Yeltsin actually read it. The memo warned that Chubais' rosy reports on the economy and payment of salaries to state...
Much harder to dismiss are child access prevention laws (or CAP laws), which hold adults--often parents and legal guardians--accountable if they allow guns to fall into underage hands. Shannan Wilber, attorney at the Youth Law Center in San Francisco, says that unlike parent-responsibility laws, CAP laws draw a direct causal relationship between adults and the crimes committed by juveniles. "Where there is a closer connection," she says, "such as a parent's possession of firearms and failure to keep them away from their kids, it's easier to connect that to a subsequent criminal...
Others cite this easy access as one of cable'sprimary flaws...