Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most businesses being first to market grants a lead not easily forfeited. McDonald's, Coke and Hertz debuted years before Burger King, Pepsi and Avis, and have held on. In the high-tech world, however, the opposite appears to obtain: early products such as Betamax and Macintosh were steamrollered by latecomers that waited for markets to mature and newer technologies to develop...
...awaits the lifting of the U.S. embargo more eagerly than Cuban scientists, who struggle to obtain basic supplies--chemical reagents, for instance--that in the U.S. are but a phone call away, and whose incomes are starting to trail behind those of service workers buoyed by Cuba's rising tourist trade. CIGB has reportedly started paying its scientists partly in dollars to keep them from leaving the field. "I love my research," confides a hardworking scientist. "But if I have to drive a taxi to support my family, I will...
...recent investigation by the Sunday Times of London found that for a fee of as little as $225, British detective agencies routinely obtain medical records simply by phoning doctors' receptionists and pretending to be another doctor's secretary. Today a few thousand records may get tapped that way. The fear is that the proposed National Health Service network would multiply the problem. "If the receptionists of all Britain's 32,000 general practitioners have their systems linked up so that any of them can access all the information," says Anderson, "then you've had it. We will do whatever...
...have purchased a few items on the Net. The sites were never advertised as being "safe" for transactions; however, in my opinion, it would be easier for someone to obtain a receipt or carbon copy of a "conventional" credit-card transaction or for a dishonest employee to steal your credit-card number than to go to the trouble of invading your "privacy" on the Net. And only a small percentage of people on the Net have the knowledge of how to tap someone's credit-card account illegally. EDWARD L. WENTZ III Oak Ridge, North Carolina...
...being North Korea's long-standing ally, one last good-will supporter, and the only channel through which North Korea maintains contact with the outside world, has had a huge, if not dominating, impact on North Korea's policy-making. When the growth-oriented Chinese leaders helped South Korea obtain its separate seat in the United Nations in 1991, something which could have been a reason enough to provoke another serious dispute back then, North Korea, surprisingly, showed no resentment and remained silent. However, to hurriedly generalize such facts to arrive at a conclusion that China can shape North Korea...