Word: conducter
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...rules for domestic spying, they urged. Free the National Security Agency (NSA) to use its powerful listening technology to eavesdrop on terrorist suspects on U.S. soil without having to seek a warrant for every phone number it tracked. But because of a 1978 law that forbids the NSA to conduct no-warrant surveillance inside the U.S., the new policy would require one of two steps. The first was to revise the law. The other was to ignore...
...support its aggressive conduct, the White House has been developing a very robust interpretation of presidential power. Vice President Dick Cheney in particular believes that presidential power has been unreasonably confined since the 1970s. Although he served as a Congressman from Wyoming from 1978 to 1989, it's the Executive Branch that holds Cheney's heart. As White House chief of staff for Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977, he saw up close how Ford's powers were repeatedly reined in by a newly invigorated Congress determined to refuse Nixon's notions of Oval Office prerogative...
...perils of outsourcing. It begins in the 1980s, when Jarrett, a music professor, created MusicPrinter Plus, a program to compose music onscreen and play it back on a synthesizer. He updated his program to eliminate the need for a synthesizer, allowing users to write music, then play and conduct it, all on a laptop. Jarrett's daughter and son-in-law, both technology consultants, thought it a winner. The three partnered to create VirtuosoWorks...
...Undergraduate Education (CUE) will be charged with coordinating several ongoing IT projects at the College as well as the development of the online CUE evaluation. The fellow will work with Registrar Barry S. Kane and other administrators “to transform the way that Harvard College students conduct their academic and administrative business,” according to an online statement announcing the new fellowship. The fellow will take charge of the CUE project and will be responsible for all the processes and decision-making relating to the initiative, including soliciting feedback about the system and promoting...
...stepped into the role of project chairman. Set to start piping gas into Europe in 2010, the $5-billion North European Gas Pipeline is controlled by Gazprom, Russia's state-run natural gas supplier. Schröder appears not to have broken any rules - there are none governing the conduct of former Chancellors - but his close relationship with Putin triggered charges of cronyism from German politicians, as well as claims that he's sold his country out. "Gazprom is Putin and Putin is Gazprom. By taking this job, Schröder has made himself a salesman for Putin's politics...