Word: airtight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blockade has proved anything but airtight. An estimated 10,000 Haitians cross the Dominican border each day to buy fuel, which they lug back in plastic jugs or pulley across ravines. At the Malpasse border crossing east of the capital, wooden fishing boats openly ply barrels of illegal gasoline and diesel from an open-air depot on the Dominican side of the island...
...past few years have not been kind to the NSA. Not only has its cover been blown, but so has its monopoly on encryption technology. As computers -- the engines of modern cryptography -- have proliferated, so have ever more powerful encryption algorithms. Telephones that offered nearly airtight privacy protection began to appear on the market, and in January U.S. computermakers said they were ready to adopt a new encryption standard so robust that even the NSA couldn't crack...
...innocence" standard and raised one in which lawyers had to prove that "no reasonable juror would have found the ((prisoner)) eligible for the death penalty." Finally, in January 1993, the court ruled that a prisoner may be executed without a hearing unless the new evidence of innocence is virtually airtight. At that time, Justice Rehnquist wrote "of the very disruptive effect that entertaining claims of actual innocence would have on the need for finality in capital cases." He also wrote, "History shows that the traditional remedy for claims of innocence based on new evidence, discovered too late...
...question beforehand was how to tell him that some of the cost estimates and revenue projections in PPF were, to put it mildly, unrealistic. Clinton has a fierce temper -- you don't ever want to be on its receiving end -- and he was convinced the PPF numbers were airtight. So we rehearsed what to say and scripted around a bit in the hope of avoiding an outburst...
...also an editorial decathlon. Thanks to Oliver's airtight deadlines, everything in the magazine had to be written, edited, double- checked for accuracy and put to bed by 6 a.m. Wednesday, no matter how late the returns were. So assistant managing editor Jim Kelly and senior editor Tom Sancton prepared two complete story lists, one in anticipation of a Clinton victory and one in response to the last-minute surge by George Bush. While a few stories appeared on both lists, most hinged on results that wouldn't be available until the final hours. There would be either a story...