Word: instantly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Republicans to think they could save money by "reforming" welfare; but party leaders blundered badly when they offered a "technical correction" to their welfare bill last week, diverting nearly $70 billion in savings to pay for cuts in taxes on businesses, corporations and the controversial child credit. In an instant, what should have been a political winner had been reduced to a question of fairness: Should Congress take from the poor and give to the rich? "They took what we thought was a very popular issue," chortled Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, "and turned it into a controversial...
Within seconds, billion-dollar Pentagon spy satellites can deliver detailed photographs to ground stations. The National Security Agency's supercomputers can sort through intercepted phone calls with lightning speed. Even clandestine agents overseas can have instant access to CIA officials in the U.S. by using cellular phones. But until last year, the White House had to depend on the "pizza truck " for all this intelligence--even during a fast-breaking crisis. And the pizza truck--the agency's nickname for the delivery van bearing secret reports from the CIA's Langley, Virginia, headquarters--often became snarled in downtown Washington traffic...
...exclusive club, Intelink has 35 intelligence organizations feeding it and so far more than 3,000 users, all with secret or top-secret security clearances to tap into the system. More important, Intelink allows White House aides, State Department analysts, Pentagon generals, even soldiers in the field almost instant access to secrets on any subject they choose from a menu on their computer screens...
What you get is a big, bustling, intermittently dippy melodrama that takes the Preston premise a few steps further. The virus becomes airborne and infects a California town. Now sneezing in a crowded theater can spread an instant epidemic. And a cute monkey may be the innocent agent of genocide...
...swell; there's heft and meaning in the songs--no throwaways. "Since I've been sober I've made three albums, and this is the best," he says. "Getting adjusted to a new way of life takes time. You don't go from 16 years of taking drugs to instant tranquillity." But he's not the sort to sit back and smell the royalties. "This album was a make-or-break thing for me," he says, "because I had to get off my backside and do something. I don't want to settle for a quiet life...