Word: accessing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Executives say the access fee would be a heavy blow to a still young industry. Customers are not happy either. Last week computer buffs were already flashing electronic messages to one another in an effort to organize a "modem march" on Washington...
...Times Washington editor, to 14 Democrats and Republicans running for President. Whitney was right. In the most exhaustive set of questions ever put to national candidates by a news organization, the Times has asked not only for such routine documents as birth certificates but also for psychiatric records and access to FBI files. Though the candidates have had the Times request for more than a month, none have complied completely and nearly all are complaining about its scope. Says Patricia O'Brien, press secretary to Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis: "You ask questions. You don't say, 'Here is my plate...
...vice president of the international sales and marketing division for Hong Kong's glittering Regent Hotel. In the Regent's case, the feng shui master recommended that the hotel set up a panoramic picture window facing Hong Kong Harbor to allow the nine dragons who live nearby to have access to their favorite bathing spot on the bay. Dragons, it seems, do not know how to use doors but can easily pass through glass. Says the hotel's public relations chief, Lynn Grebstadt: "No one wants nine irritated dragons stranded in the lobby...
...your classes. You know that racism and discrimination have not vanished into history, that they are as much in the present as in the past, and that your goal is to not let it pass into the future. You know that as long as our children are denied equal access to the American Dream, your work must...
During the '60s, the Wall was meant to stop Easterners from heading West, of course, but it also severed the western half of the city from Berlin's rich historical center and deprived West Berliners of access to the East's many parks. What is more, the cutoff of laborers from East Berlin prompted West Berlin to undertake a crash program of apartment building to attract new workers from West Germany and abroad. The main result was slapdash, tired- looking Alphaville architecture, Interbau without airs...