Word: blacklist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...refusing to pay her rent. Finally, Delgado discovered the source of her trouble: her name had been added to an electronic registry of "bad tenant risks" available by subscription to any local property owner. As party to a tenant-landlord suit, Delgado had been automatically included in a computer blacklist...
...computer-blacklist industry already has its giants. Such credit bureaus as TRW Information Services in Orange, Calif., and Equifax Inc. in Atlanta have long relied on huge banks of mainframe computers to provide consumer credit records for banks, department stores, finance companies and employers. Every working day, TRW's machines handle an average of 255,000 requests, culling information from a massive data base that contains detailed records of the bill-paying habits of 133 million people...
Though consumer advocates complain that the service creates a blacklist, Physician's Alert insists that its customers merely want to be cautious in treating people who might sue. Says Eckstein: "We know of no instance in which a patient has been refused care...
DIED. Albert Maltz, 76, Academy Award- winning screenwriter who was imprisoned for ten months, then blacklisted by the film community in the 1950s and early '60s after refusing to testify before Congress about his Communist associations; in Los Angeles. His Oscars were for wartime documentaries: Moscow Strikes Back (1942) and The House I Live In (1945); among his other notable screenplays were This Gun for Hire (1942) and The Naked City (1948). "To understand all," he once said of the blacklist and his years of Mexican exile and pseudonymous work, "is not to forgive...
President Chun Doo Hwan last week abolished a four-year-old blacklist under which 14 leading South Korean opposition figures were banned from political activity. Among them were the country's two most important dissident leaders, Kim Young Sam, 57, and Kim Dae Jung, 60. The President's move freed the latter - Kim from the house arrest imposed after his return last month from exile in the U.S. But because Kim has 17 1/2 years left on a suspended 20-year sentence for sedition, he remains prohibited from engaging in politics. Thus Kim Young Sam may well outpace...