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...case gleaned from the prosecutors' files involved one of their own. Last August, Jefferson County (Colo.) District Attorney Nolan Brown was convicted of computer crime, forgery and abuse of public records in a ticket- fixing case. Hoping to reduce his automobile-insurance rates, Brown had asked a motor vehicle bureau employee to delete a pair of speeding tickets from the department's computer system. He was sentenced to five days in jail, fined $2,000, placed on four years' probation and ordered to perform 200 hours of community service. He also resigned. Thus Brown lost a $73,000-a-year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Surveying the Data Diddlers | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...year-old Maxxum is attracting rivals. Last week Nippon Kogaku (est. fiscal-1985 sales: $940 million), the maker of Nikon, became the first firm to announce a comparable alternative to Minolta's pioneering model. Like the Maxxum, the Nikon N2020 will use two microchips and a tiny motor inside the camera to focus automatically. The camera, which will be priced at about $460 for the body alone when it arrives in U.S. stores in April, will include an optional converter to make it compatible with the company's existing line of 35-mm lenses, some 15 million of which have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Right Focus | 2/17/1986 | See Source »

...going to take a while to replace stuff. Sports is especially going to miss the motor drive," Sheridan said...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Yearbook Equipment Stolen From A-House | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...Yearbook owns little equipment, generally relying on its photographers to supply equipment for their own use, but Yearbook Photo Editor Rebecca Sheridan '86 said yesterday that the loss of the cameras, lenses and motor drive will not delay the publication of this year's book...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Yearbook Equipment Stolen From A-House | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

...cameras, three lenses and a motor drive belonging to the Yearbook, as well as jewelry belonging to one of the residents of the F-Entry triple were taken from the room between 10:30 p.m. and midnight, according to the room's residents. "The thief didn't take much of value except the cameras. He was looking for little stuff," said Victoria J. Wohl '88, who lives in the room...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Yearbook Equipment Stolen From A-House | 2/10/1986 | See Source »

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