Word: cannot
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...that digitally encodes a signal on the tape when the first copy is made. This inaudible code will prevent a machine from making subsequent copies of that tape. That way, consumers can make a copy of a CD to play in their cars or portable machines, but that copy cannot be used to mass-produce more tapes to give or sell to other people...
...that Doi and her Socialists will soon rule Japan. Says Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs: "The chances of Doi's becoming Prime Minister are just tiny." The Japanese, however, know better than to tell Takako Doi what she can and cannot do. They remember the deputy mayor of Kobe...
...matter how safe the seat, it cannot help a youngster sitting on an adult's lap. "A small child sitting unrestrained on a plane becomes a little missile when the aircraft hits severe turbulence," observes Northwest Airlines spokesman Bob Gibbons. Turbulence of the kind that recently jolted a Miami-bound American Airlines jet and injured 45 people poses more of a hazard to the average traveler than does the possibility of a crash...
Like Lady Macbeth, Exxon has learned to its sorrow that some stains cannot be easily scrubbed away. Exxon said last week that it will have to spend $1.28 billion, or ten times as much as initial projections, to clean up the 11 million gal. of crude oil that the supertanker Exxon Valdez spewed into Alaska's Prince William Sound last March. The surprising estimate, which did not take into account potential penalties or lawsuit settlements, made the Alaskan disaster one of the most expensive industrial accidents ever...
Bush wants to have regular meetings with Gorbachev, as did Reagan, but scheduling that first one in this environment of high expectations is ticklish. Gorbachev and his Polish and Hungarian cohorts cannot yet be made members of the open-market club, though they have such yearnings. But Bush hopes that there may be some way to bring the Communists closer to provisional entry into the free-market system. Bush, like most modern Presidents, is captivated by confronting the problem and devising solutions. The hunch here is that in the next three or four months, Bush and Gorbachev will meet...