Word: blacklist
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...special unit called Task Force 20, the U.S. intends to demoralize the diehards and prove to ordinary Iraqis still wary of openly cooperating with Americans that Saddam's rule is truly over. "We are absolutely focused on making sure that we can capture all the individuals on the blacklist," General Ricardo Sanchez, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, told TIME...
Finally, there's a community project that attacks spam the way Hollywood used to attack suspected communists: with a blacklist. For $4.99 a month, SpamNet www.cloudmark.com checks your incoming mail against its own ever expanding database. The service's 475,000-plus members contribute by "voting" on what's spam and what isn't, using the BLOCK and UNBLOCK buttons that the SpamNet program adds to your Outlook task bar. Enough votes from individual members and a message is blocked for all. With thousands of reports coming in every second, it can be pretty effective...
Jianli, a pro-democracy activist and graduate of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), went to China illegally last year using a fake passport and violating the blacklist that forbade him from entering the country. He was arrested by Chinese authorities, who have been holding him ever since...
Yang had been placed on China’s blacklist after he participated in the Tiananmen protest in 1989, and the Chinese government has repeatedly barred him fron entering the country
They have refused to allow him to leave China because of Yang’s blacklist status, Fu says...