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Word: bitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...authorities could do. It was as close to a technological epiphany as I have ever been. And as I watched my personal digital hell unfold, it struck me that our privacy--mine and yours--has already disappeared, not in one Big Brotherly blitzkrieg but in Little Brotherly moments, bit by bit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVASION OF PRIVACY | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

That might make your life a bit less comfortable, of course. As in the case of Bob Bruen, who went into a barbershop in Watertown, Mass., recently. "When I was asked for my phone number, I refused to give them the last four digits," Bruen says. "I was also asked for my name, and I also refused. The girl at the counter called her supervisor, who told me I could not get a haircut in their shop." Why? The barbershop uses a computer to record all transactions. Bruen went elsewhere to get his locks shorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVASION OF PRIVACY | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...LITTLE BIT OF A COMEBACK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 18, 1997 | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

...Cajun histrionics and even grew a close-cropped beard to differentiate himself from the jumpy, clean-shaven Carville. Adrian Lester, the young British actor whose pivotal role as narrator Henry Burton contains elements of Ron Brown and adviser George Stephanopoulos, says he's "just done a little bit of reading on Ron Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING A BLOCKBUSTER TO THE 21ST CENTURY | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

...like a Chief Executive who throws caution to the winds and surprises his staff members by being more candid than they are, Travolta isn't the least bit cagey about his role's model. The actor has copied the President's hair color, body language and a remarkably accurate honey-dipped Arkansas accent. "I'm really playing him," admits the actor, who studied hours of videotapes to prep for his latest face/off. "It's false p.r. for me to do it any other way...unless there are some legal issues I don't know about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING A BLOCKBUSTER TO THE 21ST CENTURY | 8/18/1997 | See Source »

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