Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irrepressible urge to press flesh; probably no other Israeli politician has shaken so many hands or bussed so many cheeks. He is aware that Rabin's last visit to the White House was flawed by the lack of personal rapport between Rabin and Carter. To prevent that kind of psychological impasse, Begin and his aides have worked for weeks discussing not only what he should say to the President but how to say it and when. Thus Begin may well arrive in Washington this week" holding substantially the same positions as Rabin did, but the man and manner will...
Once people surrender personal details-for instance, to banks in applying for mortgages- they lose control over the information forever. They have no legal right to inspect most private files to contest or correct them. Nor can they prevent the records from being shared among banks, credit bureaus and insurance companies, or shown to employers. or turned over to law enforce ment agencies. Says Douglas Lea, counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights: "Privacy is power. What we're really talking about is whether the Government and other large organizations will have power over the individual." Warns California...
Government and private snoops also have easy access to the records in credit bureaus and credit card companies on the income, job history, shopping habits, travel and entertainment expenditures of more than 100 million Americans. Even the most elaborate safeguards cannot prevent unauthorized snoops from getting at the information. Last year TRW Credit Data discovered that a ring of criminals, for fees of $600 to $1,000, was cleaning up bad credit records stored by TRW's computer...
Warrior Image. The assets are mainly held through numbered bank accounts and blind names to prevent Israeli retaliation-and also to camouflage the wealth of a movement that prides itself on its warrior image. Much of the investment has been handled by the Arab Bank Ltd., a vigorous Amman-based banking house, controlled by Palestinians, with assets of $4 billion and branches or joint ventures in 19 countries, including the U.S. The Arab Bank is widely known in the Middle East as the P.L.O. Bank, but its Jerusalem-born president, Abdel Majeed Shoman, 65, is handsomely repaid for whatever risks...
...been eliminated, while a deep, concrete-lined ditch has been added. It is intended to thwart would-be escapees trying to crash the border in cars or trucks. West of the ditch is a minefield, then a new close-meshed wire fence that begins 3 ft. underground (to prevent tunneling) and rises 10 ft. above the earth...