Word: dossiers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...countries at war. The Swedish arms firm Bofors was reported last year by local newspapers to have sold several hundred Robot 70 portable ground-to-air missiles to Iran between 1983 and 1985. Last month the Belgian daily Le Soir reported that Swedish customs officials had sent a bulky dossier to their counterparts in Brussels. The file contained details of the shipment of Swedish war materiel destined for Iran through the Belgian port of Zeebrugge. Last week Martin Ardbo, the managing director of Bofors weapons division, abruptly resigned. This week the Swedes are expected to publish the results...
...began offering Shape Up, one of several privately developed programs that are being adopted by educational systems around the nation. Students take six fitness tests and keep a food-and-drink diary for three days. The information is fed into a computer, which prints out an individual 20-page dossier, complete with sketches of where body fat is deposited plus diet and exercise recommendations. To keep participants motivated, Shape Up, which is funded by All American Gourmet, dishes out insignia T shirts, shorts and headbands...
Instead of supervising the old way, by peering over an employee's shoulder from time to time and trying to guess from observation how well the subordinate performs, a manager can now simply look into a worker's computer dossier and immediately see, for instance, an exact record of how many letters a week a secretary has been handling on her word processor. The manager can compare one worker objectively with all the others, then reward the speedy ones and warn the laggards. Not all employees find the surveillance oppressive. In fact many, particularly the hardest workers, prefer...
These matching programs send a Big Brotherly chill down more than a few spines. To keep the Government out of the electronic dossier and blacklist business, the Privacy Act of 1974 prohibited federal agencies from exchanging data about private citizens without their consent. Yet the Administration, despite the protests of the A.C.L.U. and other watchdog groups, is planning to expand further its computer matching efforts to include families applying for college loans, veterans using VA hospitals and rural families asking the Farmers Home Administration for low-interest housing loans...
...terrorists for the sake of publicity are notoriously unreliable. On Friday, for instance, still another Palestinian splinter group made the improbable claim that it was responsible for the crash of the Mexican airliner early last week. But the link between Abu Nidal and the TWA bombing seemed plausible. His dossier of terrorist acts includes the killing of a number of Palestinian foes and Israeli officials and the bombing of synagogues in Europe. His group may also have been involved in last year's hijacking of an EgyptAir plane, leading to the death of 60 people when the craft was stormed...