Word: accessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...call this department to transfer funds, often paying money directly into suppliers' accounts. As at most banks, transfers require that a First Chicago employee call back another executive at the customer's offices to reconfirm the order, using various code numbers. All such calls are automatically taped. Taylor had access to the codes and knew the names of the appropriate executives at various corporations. The gang's original plan called for stealing $232 million from the accounts of quite a few companies, including Hilton, but the group eventually settled on taking the $68.7 million from United, Brown-Forman and Merrill...
...sense the clubs have become victims of their own success: by realizing their mission, they invite their demise. As access has opened up to government, the workplace and the courts, women's clubs are no longer the primary path to fulfillment or power. Where they once provided an invaluable network of contacts and company, they must now compete with single-issue organizations, professional groups and even men's clubs...
...underclass is over-whlemingly comprised of Blacks and Hispanics, it may at first seem suprising that Wilson opposes affirmative action. Wilson has two objections to racespecific policies. First, affirmative action programs in their different forms all tend to benefit the relatively well-off disproportianately. For inner-city Blacks without access to an appropriate job market, affirmative action is of little use. Secondly, race-specific policies are notoriously unpopular politically, especially in times when the economy suffers setbacks...
...putting together the special, Frontline Writer-Producers Stephanie Tepper and William Cran worked closely with TIME correspondents in Europe and Washington and rummaged through material from Time Inc.'s extensive library. "One of the most useful things was having access to TIME's remarkable research files," says Sullivan. In addition, Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott, an authority on arms control, topped off the show with a video essay linking European defense to global nuclear deterrence...
...Dignidad (Dignity Colony) quickly set to work constructing what they called an "educational and benefactory society" on the site of an old ranch near Parral, 250 miles south of Santiago. Before long the newcomers had built a model community that offered many of the area's 20,000 residents access to employment, trade, free hospital services, an elementary school and, eventually, even a European-style restaurant on the nearby highway...