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...machine guns, AK-47 assault rifles and homemade mortars. But the arms dump was also salted with rusty rifles and shells the Tigers would probably never use. The final turn-in rate might be as low as 40%. In that case, the Indian army may launch operations to ferret out hidden weapons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sri Lanka Peace Flexes Its Muscle | 8/17/1987 | See Source »

...search -- one of thousands of computer matching projects conducted by the Administration -- points up the power and the perils of computer data banks. Removing the deceased from the Social Security rolls has saved taxpayers about $50 million and led to more than 500 convictions for fraud. But to ferret out the cheats, the computer had to open and examine, however briefly, the records of more than 30 million presumably innocent Americans. That, say civil libertarians on both sides of the political spectrum, is an invasion of privacy and comes perilously close to violating the Constitution, particularly the Fourth Amendment "right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMPUTERS Don't Tread on My Data | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

...computer terminology, Scorecard is a "relational data base," a powerful filing and retrieval program that can not only search for clues but ferret out relations or links between those clues. In a complicated case involving operations in several cities, Scorecard can quickly identify a suspect's contacts and associates. Says Wutrich: "Our system even makes suggestions on where a fugitive might be or who is the strongest person to lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Taking A Byte Out of Crime | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

...dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of seeing St. Augustine flattened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

Traditionally, investigative reporters have relied on shoe leather and patience to ferret out the proverbial smoking gun. However, in the computer age, newsmen are enlisting the machine with dramatic results...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: New Paths to Buried Treasure | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

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