Word: backdoor
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...revise the contract's proposed $500 per child tax credit and limit it to taxpayers making less than $95,000 a year. Otherwise, they argued, the credit would go to anyone making up to $200,000--hardly just the middle class. Perhaps worse, it would also amount to a backdoor raise for members of Congress, who make $133,600 a year. That could spell political demise...
...estimated $2 trillion of the American taxpayer's money, much of it going down foreign ratholes to countries that constantly oppose us in the U.N." But he has limited room to maneuver. Total U.S. largesse abroad in 1994 comes to $12.3 billion. Half of that is military aid, a backdoor subsidy for U.S. weaponsmakers that he is unlikely to gut. Actual developmental aid, the kind conservatives love to hate, comes to only $6.5 billion, down 20% from 1993. The incoming chairman has promised to make no cuts to Israel, the biggest recipient, with $1.2 billion. The Administration has already decided...
...same time, it possesses a backdoor two keys"-held by two separate government agencies-that will allow the government to decode any data with appropriate warrants. Administration officials contend that the government must have free reign to be able to decode any criminal activity or suspected foreign espionage...
...there are a number of more pressing issues facing these revolutionaries. Will male non-members be able to get in the backdoor now, like non-member women? Will these men be able to go to the special places where only non-member women are currently allowed? Who will be able to go through the front door? The back door? What's going to happen with the initiation rites? Will those go co-ed too? Will women and men have separate "talking rooms"? Or will they be able to talk to each other...
...computer system is even worse. A backdoor into the mail system allows even the most inept hacker to masquerade as President Rudenstine when sending electronic Mail. This means that any email receiyed could be real or it could be a blatant forgery-and the recipient has absolutely no way of knowing...