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Word: computerize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Spy Catcher. Spearheading the drive against Mischa's network of agents is Richard Meier, 49, head of the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (literally, Federal Office for Protecting the Constitution), West Germany's counterintelligence agency. A dogged, professional spy catcher, Meier reduced harmful frictions between his agency and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Mischa Meets His Match | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

On the defensive, Mischa has stepped up "Lothario" operations, whereby handsome agents lure lonely Bonn government secretaries into bed and, ultimately, into East German service. He also takes advantage of West German unemployment by trying to recruit jobless people who might one day become useful sources. Thousands of unemployed computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: Mischa Meets His Match | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

The Government's growing role in paying for medical treatment poses another problem. To process Medicare claims, two insurance companies were given access to the bare minimum of information in the Social Security Administration's records; the information-for instance, the person's birth date and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRIVACY: Striking Back At the Super Snoops | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

Now everyone has lost. The Oahu grand jury has indicted both keepers for grand theft. The Kewalo Basin's director, Louis M. Herman, discounts the argument that the experiments were heinous: scientists were teaching the mammals to understand two-word sentences by means of computer beeps, and the dolphins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Escape of the Dolphins | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

Just Nonunion. The strike, which has been dubbed "the Grunwick siege" by pro-Tory London papers, began as a relatively simple labor problem. Last August Mrs. Jayaben Desai, a tiny Indian immigrant from Tanzania, walked off her job as a film processor in protest against the low wages ($42.50 a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Unions Scuttle the Social Contract | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

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