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...that there are more than enough votes in the House to impeach Clinton. If anything, the intense skepticism regarding his motives will only harden sentiment against him in the G.O.P. It is offensive because despite the President's sexual immorality, we cannot seriously entertain the notion that Clinton would employ military action to save his skin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Showing Force | 12/17/1998 | See Source »

...combat this problem, e-commerce vendors employ a technology known as SSL, or Secure Sockets Layer. SSL allows your personal information to be encrypted via the application of a sophisticated mathematical formula. The encryption process turns your information from a form that is easily understood by any human to a mass of seemingly random gibberish. The intended receiver of the information can then transform the gibberish back into its original form via a decryption process that uses a different set of mathematical formulas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elliot Shmukler's Tech Talk | 12/8/1998 | See Source »

When he co-founded Standard in 1870, the oil fields of western Pennsylvania--the heart of the new industry--were in a chaotic state as gluts dragged down prices below production costs. Rockefeller then began to employ the tactics that made him a legend. Imposing his own granite discipline on the industry, he bought up rivals, modernized plants and organized the oil industry on an enduring basis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blessed Barons | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...always, local and state officials were on hand when Seaboard announced in August 1992 that it would employ as many as 1,500 workers at its new pork-production facility. In time the plant will slaughter 4 million pigs a year. Oklahoma Governor David Walters declared the plant "a huge and much deserved economic boost to the entire Panhandle area, and to the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporate Welfare: The Empire Of The Pigs | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

...Attention Deficit Answer Book (Plume), Dr. Alan Wachtel writes that even when medication is warranted, Ritalin is not necessarily the best choice. Also, says Wachtel, there are "behavioral techniques" and "psychological interventions" to employ. In January, Norton will be publishing Ritalin Nation. The author, Richard DeGrandpre, argues that the demand for the drug is an unfortunate result of our speeded-up society. "We're not just moving through our lives faster," he writes. "We're also acquiring a heightened need for speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Age of Ritalin: Rx: A Shelf Load Of Books | 11/30/1998 | See Source »

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