Word: panels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cornell panel rejected the idea that Morris created the worm to point out the need for greater computer security...
...panel disputed industry claims that theworm caused about $96 million in damage,"especially considering no work or data wereirretrievably lost...
...panel also recommended Cornell develop auniversity-wide policy on computer abuse
...more authority than the city council, the board votes on the budget and controls such matters as zoning, municipal contracts, and water and sewer rates. Three elected officials (the mayor, comptroller and city-council president) and the president of each of the city's five boroughs sit on the panel. But the boroughs have widely varying populations. The member representing Staten Island's 377,600 residents has the same voting power as the one representing the 2,309,600 people of Brooklyn, the most populous borough...
Before Ronald Reagan assumed the presidency, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission was a strong ally in the movement for racial equality. But under Reagan, the panel became more of a bystander. Now high hopes for the commission's revival under George Bush are in danger of being undermined by the antics of its chairman, William Barclay Allen. He refuses to resign despite broad hints from the White House that he should step aside...