Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Center for Infectious Diseases believes the epidemic has now peaked. "With the cold weather and the control efforts," says director James Hughes, "I expect transmission to cease." But questions remain. Will migrating birds carry the virus south, and will it re-emerge next spring? Most intriguing, why does its overseas counterpart not kill birds...
Traveling through China reinforced my belief that attempts to restrict information and control dissent are not only counterproductive to a healthy economy and society, they are also, in the age of satellites and the Internet, futile. Among the most common sounds in Shanghai now is the chirping of cell phones. And last week I kept bumping into folks--from Yahoo's Jerry Yang and AOL's Steve Case to my dinner companion Liu Mingkang and Beijing Internet cafe founder Edward Zeng--who are launching digital-information services...
...Ochs actually believed what he wrote. Within 25 years, his paper dominated the New York City market and grossed more than $100 million. Now, as another century turns, the Times is the best newspaper in the world, with annual corporate revenues of $2.9 billion. The descendants of Ochs still control the company, and they are no longer worried about financial failure...
Punch Sulzberger was, however, a veteran of the Marine Corps and refused to accept partial control. His parents relented, and he went on to preside over three decades of corporate expansion and journalistic excellence. It was Punch Sulzberger who had the courage to publish the Pentagon papers. It was Punch who painfully forced family members and aging editors into early retirement...
Later this month, Senator DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHAN of New York will team up with Florida Congressman PORTER GOSS to introduce a bill increasing congressional control over declassification, with particular attention to cases like Horman's. The law will create an independent board to review documents for declassification. The first head of that board, Goss hopes, will be Moynihan...