Word: orderlies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...order to combat the ease with which skilled electronic Peeping Toms can access others' information, encryption exists to secure your connection and the data that flows over...
Encryption converts data into a locked or 'ciphertext' version. In order to decipher the data, a key is needed. The quality of an encryption key is measured in bits. The more bits, the merrier. The strongest commercially available encryption is currently 128 bits, (although there is some insane company that just announced 4,096 bit encryption...
...running a stop sign? Maybe you've played damsel in distress when faced with a flat tire or a particularly heavy suitcase that had to be lugged aways. Nothing drastic, no sleeping one's way to the top, just occasionally shedding mantle of "liberated woman" in order to make the day run a little smoother--strictly minor offenses. Was our ill-fated Monica aware of such powers? I guess yes. Is it naive to presume she was taken advantage of? I guess yes again...
However much Gephardt may be longing for order, his is an uphill fight. Democrats who feel that Clinton is a serial traitor to the party, shutting them out of his budget deals with Republicans, hanging them out to dry on difficult votes, bullying them into accepting tax hikes and then denouncing them for it, going over their heads at every opportunity, are not hastening to his rescue now. Californian Henry Waxman, a plausible candidate to support Clinton, summed up the mood: "He's an embarrassment to people in his own party. Even if it's not impeachable, no one wants...
DIED. YANG SHANGKUN, 91, former Chinese President and unreconstructed Marxist who in 1989 gave the order for the People's Liberation Army to fire on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square; in Beijing. A veteran of the Long March, Shangkun was an acolyte of Mao Zedong, and later his victim, imprisoned for 12 years during the Cultural Revolution. Rehabilitated in 1978, he was put in charge of the army by longtime revolutionary compatriot Deng Xiaoping...