Word: dossier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beers. No one seemed in a position to do much about it. To the neighbors in West Islip, a Long Island suburb, she was the wide-eyed little girl who roamed the streets at all hours, sometimes coatless in the winter. Child- protection authorities had built up a fat dossier on her makeshift family. They knew that sometimes Katie stayed with her unmarried mother in a filthy, roach-infested house where rusted cars and an old refrigerator decorated the lawn. But sometimes she was in the charge of her godmother, who summoned the girl to run errands by pounding...
...shellfish can be avoided, peanuts and peanut products, including some forms of peanut oil, are ubiquitous in foods, showing up unrecognized in such items as chili, stews and meat patties. Canadian businessman Paul Motz has learned to be wary -- and prepared. With seven severe reactions already in his medical dossier, he always carries a vial of the hormone epinephrine (for relaxing bronchial muscles and jump-starting the heart). He also has a supply of cards to hand out to waiters, each bearing the warning "I have an acute allergy to peanuts. Any contact could kill me immediately. Please double-check...
McKee's thick, 37-page Army dossier contains so many blacked-out words that it's hard to glean the danger he faced. Surviving the censor's ink was his title, "Team Chief." Under "Evaluation," it was written that he "performs constantly in the highest-stress environment with clear operational judgment and demeanor . . . Especially strong in accomplishing the mission with minimal guidance and supervision . . . Continues to perform one of the most hazardous and demanding jobs in the Army...
...true depth of disaffection for the regime or predicted its collapse. By trying to know everything, the Stasi apparatus knew nothing. Barbel Bohley, an artist and organizer of the New Forum movement that led the popular rebellion against the communist regime in 1989, found the information in her dossier ludicrous. "I have never read so much boring nonsense," she said after viewing 25 folders, less than half her file. "If that was my life, then for heaven's sake what did they make...
...which at least in theory restricts the government from taking computer data gathered for one purpose (say, the census) and using them for another purpose (say, tax collection). Another guiding precept is that unique numerical identifiers -- like Thailand's ID numbers -- should be avoided because they make dossier preparation temptingly easy. That is why the American Civil Liberties Union gets so upset when a Social Security number is used beyond its original intent...