Word: consent
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...Warden peppered chief government witness and Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale Tuesday with questions about his years as a salesman at IBM. Didn't Big Blue throw its weight around, too? "We were trained to behave as if we were a monopoly," said Barksdale, "because we were operating under a consent decree" -- which IBM had the good sense not to test, unlike Microsoft's wrangling last year. Touch?. But didn't IBM do its own fair share of bundling products? Yes, but they were forced to unbundle in 1968, said the Netscape boss, which "gave rise to a whole new industry...
Stewart said she was able to move the trialplan forward by recognizing the masters' autonomyand seeking their individual consent...
Further, colleges can now also release, upon consent, witness statements to crimes...
...paramilitary massacres peasants, human rights workers, and left-wing activists at will, without fear of reprisal, and often with the tacit consent of Colombian security forces. While the State Department insists that no violators of human rights benefit from U.S. assistance, the accountability of an inept and abusive Colombian military is far from assured. Currently, 10 soldiers are under investigation for committing human rights abuses themselves, and many more cases have been hushed up. Given the Colombian military's extremely poor human rights record, the reality is that we have no way of knowing whether our aid reaches human rights...
DIED. ALLEN DRURY, 80, former Washington reporter who turned political insight into fictional intrigue when he wrote the 1960 Pulitzer prizewinning novel Advise and Consent; in Tiburon, Calif. The best-selling book drew on Drury's years as a New York Times correspondent and portrayed the machinations surrounding the nomination of a new Secretary of State. He published 18 more novels, most pertaining to the inner workings of the capital...