Word: leakproof
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sees at a glance, the computer must be taught, painstakingly, one step at a time. First it must comprehend the concept of an object, a physical thing distinguished from the space around it by edges and surfaces. Then it must grasp the essential attributes of cupness: the handle, the leakproof central cavity, the stable base. Finally, it must deal with the exceptions, like the foam-plastic cup whose heat-insulating properties are so good that it does not need a handle...
...Senate Select Committee probing Iranscam is determined to avoid such unseemliness. To shield its investigation from political gossip as well as foreign intelligence services, the committee will move into a new $350,000 suite in the Hart Office Building that is designed to be leakproof. Staff members will talk on bug-proof telephones, type on hacker-proof word processors and sign out research material from a "secure documents room." The offices will be protected by code-locked doors staffed around the clock by armed guards. Exterior walls will be implanted with electronic sensors to detect intruders...
...House and operating with a budget of only $4 million, could run so dangerously amuck. The answer seems to be that it offered everything Reagan wanted as an instrument of policy. The NSC is protected by Executive privilege, immune to congressional oversight, secretive and small enough to be virtually leakproof. Though the NSC has enjoyed high influence in previous Administrations, the agency has rarely attained the degree of autonomy that it has under Ronald Reagan. But critics charge that the NSC has been playing outside its territory. "The National Security Council is not set up to handle operations and implement...
Ronald Reagan's hope for his Strategic Defense Initiative is to render nuclear missiles obsolete by erecting a leakproof umbrella over the U.S. But skeptics argue that an attempt to build a Star Wars defense would be "destabilizing" and would make nuclear war more likely, not less...
...away from a strategy based on the ability to threaten with offensive power to greater reliance upon systems that don't threaten anybody." A switch from offensive to defensive deterrence would indeed be a radical change, but not necessarily for the better. Since it is hard to imagine a leakproof nuclear umbrella, each side would still be vulnerable to a first strike. Moreover, each would have to worry about the other's achieving a decisive advantage in defensive weapons. The attraction of MAD, by contrast, is its grim certainty...