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Cyberpunk culture is likely to get a boost from, of all things, the Clinton- Gore Administration, because of a shared interest in what the new regime calls America's "data highways" and what the cyberpunks call CYBERSPACE. Both terms describe the globe-circling, interconnected telephone network that is the conduit for billions of voice, fax and computer-to-computer communications. The incoming Administration is focused on the wiring, and it has made strengthening the network's high-speed data links a priority. The cyberpunks look at those wires from the inside; they talk of the network as if it were...
...HURRICANE ANDREW WASN'T BAD ENOUGH FOR Florida's tourism industry, now the state is facing a man-made disaster: snipers taking potshots at cars along Interstate 295, conduit for some 80,000 vehicles a day around downtown Jacksonville and the primary route for East Coast snowbirds headed south for Florida's beaches...
...refers to on-the-record briefings, such as presidential news conferences and press releases. Leaks, on the other hand, are unauthorized disclosures of information attributed to anonymous sources. In foreign policy, these leaks contain classified information which, if given straight to the KGB without using the media as a conduit, would warrant prosecution for espionage...
Swindle, a friend of the candidate's since 1973 and the conduit for Perot's orders to the field, is in many ways a perfect Perot operative: competent, self-effacing, obedient and intensely loyal. A former fighter pilot and POW like Stockdale, who ran Reagan's 1980 California campaign, Swindle served as an Assistant Secretary of Commerce...
Jenkins' scheme is to make his bank a conduit for big Establishment banks that have been unwilling to do business in South Central or do not know how. "Founders National Bank can be the major banks' ears and arms into this marketplace," Jenkins says. With help from the black community, he hopes to grow his fledgling bank into an even greater financial asset for South Central. Late in May a coalition of more than 600 black ministers launched a campaign to persuade black residents to shift up to $15 million in deposits from mainstream banks to black institutions. "The larger...