Word: collectivities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...better encryption. The electronic age may claim to be founded on openness, but in fact, it's founded on keeping things hidden. You can't have e-cash if people can duplicate their electronic dollar bills, or credit card Web purchases if a third party can listen in and collect the numbers. You also can't do anything important over e-mail if it can be intercepted or if you have no guarantee of whom you're talking to. The ability to keep our bank accounts safe from intruders is more important to national security than the ability to snoop...
...will also contribute a boat equipped with a skimmer to collect trash, as well as the assistance of a graduate student with environmental expertise, said Paul Parravano, codirector of government and community relations...
...come here pretty often, unfortunately. When the headlines are really black, I go down to the Quaker house and collect the signs and come down here," said Catharine D. Rush '56, who is the clerk of the Cambridge Friends' committee although she is not a Friend herself...
...gender to save the women and children and kill the men. He has then taken the dead men's bodies and piled them together to make "cleansing" conflagrations. The Kosovars who have escaped are now destitute and homeless, wandering into Albania and Macedonia to rest in the tents and collect the cans of baby food waiting there for their nourishment...
When you're worth $10 billion, you can afford to collect Gulfstreams, Ferraris and yachts. But last week Jeff Bezos, the founder of e-tailing dynamo Amazon.com had his sights set a little lower. Like millions of Internet surfers searching for their favorite obscure trinkets, Bezos joined an online auction, bidding for a pack of 1977 Star Wars trading cards. Alas, the buying force was not with him. He dropped out when the price got too high...