Word: hacker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some think the tax on liquor is too low. "Heavier taxes make heavy drinkers more responsible for what they do," said George Hacker, director of alcohol policies for the Center for Science in Public Interest, a non-profit health advocacy group...
...Hacker says that the tax on spirits should be twice what it is now, and levies on beer and wine should be similarly increased. By doubling the tax, Hacker figures that alcohol-related problems, particularly lost productivity and increased health care costs, will decline by 15 percent and raise $12 billion for the U.S. Treasury...
Last year's hit movie War-Games and a series of well-publicized computer break-ins have created an image of a teen-age computer hacker that is giving the term a bad name. Many people now think of hackers as pests or perhaps even criminals. But the hackers them selves claim they are getting a bum rap from movies and newspapers. Says Bill Burns, an industrial psychologist and part-time hacker: "We are the victims of a major press screw...
...pranksterism associated with their name, and many feel it is time they set an example for the next generation of computer fans. "It's one thing for a high school kid to show off how he can dial the phone for free," says Brian Harvey, an M.I.T. hacker turned high school teacher. "It's quite another for an adult to go around encouraging schoolkids to steal...
Exhibits like these are likely to impress the computer hacker, who will feel for the hardships of the early computer programmers and appreciate the p2ogress that has been made. The computer illiterate person, whose dealings with computers are limited to the use of an automatic teller machine, however, may fail to grasp such subtle advances...