Word: parker
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Most misdeeds boiled down to what Donn Parker, a computer-crime watcher at SRI International, calls "data diddling"--entering false numbers at a keyboard. To pay for his wife's drug purchases, for example, a programmer at a savings and loan company in Los Angeles transferred $5,000 into his personal account and tried to cover up the switch with phony debit and credit transactions. The error was picked up in a routine bank audit. Among the 15 programmers and ten students nabbed, the offenses committed most often were thefts of software and telecommunications services. The rest of the crimes...
...actually begin to melt away. Only in the past few years have doctors had the tools to achieve such reductions. LDL-pheresis is one example, while new experimental drugs like Mevinolin, particularly when combined with existing drugs, also hold great promise. "What's exciting now," observes Biochemist Thomas Parker, director of the Rogosin lipid laboratory, "is that for the first time researchers all over the world can begin to study the possibility of reversing atherosclerosis...
Professor of Law Richard D. Parker said thatthe court decision "puts the thing back in the lapof Congress," but the ruling was "a big mistake...
...automatic budget cutting mechanism wouldgreatly reduce battling among interest groups,said Parker. "The virtue of Gramm-Rudman is thatit would force difficult decisions to the front ofthe agenda. A lot of people have no trust inCongress to discipline itself," he said
...didn't give ourselves a chance to play in our end," Parker added. "Once we did that, we played well...