Word: blanke
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...problem began three years ago, after a major reform of Medicare. Under its earlier provisions, the plan, which covers the health-care costs of citizens who are over age 65 or disabled, paid for all "reasonable" hospital expenses. By the late '70s, however, this blank-check approach had led to a dizzying 17% annual increase in Medicare's hospitalization costs and warnings that the system would be bankrupt...
Each of the major countries had its own reasons to protest. The French, in addition to being worried about their own eight hostages in the Middle East, had an irresistible Gaullist urge to preserve their military independence. "No blank checks," a French official said of Paris' refusal to go along with the U.S. action. Concurred a French army colonel: "We will not be the Americans' valet d'armes--their orderly or spear carrier." The Italians have an enduringly bad con-science about Mussolini's colonial war against Libya and, to be sure, are concerned about 4,000 Italians living there...
Driving through rain east of Reykjavík to look at Thingvellir, site of the first Icelandic parliament (established 930), the oldest such assembly in the world. I'm not feeling so young myself, the imagination blank except for memories of a book called Letters from Iceland by W.H. Auden and memories of the Icelandic sagas, populated by heroes with unpronounceable names who made elegant speeches and went at one another with axes. More recent memories: news analyses assuring the public that Reagan and Gorbachev definitely are and definitely are not going to accomplish anything substantive at this presummit summit. Most...
...they produce and market. The problem arises because an unprotected program on a floppy disk, like music on a cassette or a movie on videotape, can easily be copied. Anyone with a personal computer and two disk drives need only insert an original disk in drive A, put a blank disk in drive B and type a few commands. In a matter of seconds, there will be a perfect, albeit illegal, copy of a program that in a computer store might cost hundreds of dollars...
...that have frustrated so many customers all involve modifying the way information is stored on a floppy disk. On unprotected disks, digitized computer data are recorded in concentric rings called tracks. When ordered to copy a disk, a computer reads each track in sequence and reproduces it on a blank disk. Thus, to discourage pirates, publishers at first simply rearranged the order in which the tracks were recorded, a strategy that was sufficient to make any unauthorized copies inoperable...