Word: locks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pyle said that some Mason fellows are so impressed with what they have learned about management that they want to import their favorite courses lock, stock, and travel. One farmer minister in the Burmess government upon returning home from his year as a Mason fellow persuaded his government to establish a K-School courses on microeconomics as part of the curriculum at the University of Rangoon. He wired the Kennedy School and asked for the entire course packet to be sent special delivery...
...When he was ten, I got so angry with him, I panicked. I was rushing to kill him. But I managed to tell him to go to his room and lock himself in and not to open the door no matter what I said. He fled. He was really afraid. I could hear him breathing like a frightened rabbit behind the door. I was fulfilling my mother's predictions. I was no good and I'd never be any good. I went to Mass every Sunday, and every Sunday I'd say, 'I'll confess...
...would call in the business community, lock them up in the University of the Philippines, and tell them, "O.K., you are the guys most concerned. You work out your program and then give me your recommendations...
...highway agency has lost 30% of ts employees and sustained a 25% budget cut under Reagan. For two years, NHTSA did little about repeated complaints that the brakes on more than 1 million X-cars made by General Motors tended to lock, especially on wet roads, resulting in the deaths of at least 15 people in skidding accidents. But now NHTSA has suddenly reversed course. It ordered the recall of 240,000 X-cars last spring, and this month it filed a lawsuit against GM demanding the recall of 1.1 million 1980 X-cars and charging that GM had lied...
...consultants advise clients that the surest way to protect their information is to put their computers under lock and key. But as networks of computers connected by phone lines grow, that kind of isolation becomes irrelevant. More elaborate precautions like passwords, dedicated telephone lines and voice analyzers offer some degree of security. Encryption, which scrambles messages, is perhaps the best way to protect data sent over the wires. It is expensive (up to $5,000 per terminal) and difficult to use. Nonetheless, for those willing to pay the price, the technology for protection exists...