Word: interpretative
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Still another difficulty involves the wording with which both sides pledge that they will not try to circumvent the terms of the accord. Although such a vow may seem superfluous, the Soviets could try to interpret it in a manner that would impede the transfer of weapon technology by the U.S. to other NATO members...
...could well be made public in a handbook like a telephone directory. In that way, someone who wanted to communicate with the group would simply look up the necessary key and use it to encode a message. Yet even if someone could intercept this transmission, he could not interpret it without access to the second, or decoding, key. Diffie compares this seemingly paradoxical system to a bank's night-deposit box: anyone can put money in, but only authorized employees can take...
What church claims to have 6 million U.S. clergy but only one article of faith, a belief in "that which is right and every person's right to interpret what is right"? Answer: the Universal Life Church, which was "born out of the vision of its Founder Kirby S. Hensley" in 1962. Universal Life is only one of 37 groups catalogued in a fascinating new manual entitled Religious Requirements and Practices. Its earnest notes on Hensley's "church" neglect to mention that it is the notorious ordination-by-mail mill that for the past decade has conferred...
...disagreement over how to interpret the regulation concerning "homemade" centers particularly on the question of where the ice cream is actually produced...
...regional directors and re-centralized it in Washington. Too few bureaucrats, HEW'S critics claim, are rewarded for initiative. Says Robert Mollica, who deals with federal-state relations for the Governor's office in Massachusetts: "Occasionally we will find a bureaucrat who is courageous enough to interpret the spirit behind the programs rather than carrying them out to the letter whether or not that makes sense...