Word: printout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pentagon and Lockheed announced that they had just begun to fight. Under Secretary of Defense Richard DeLauer warned Boeing's chairman, T. A. Wilson, "We're going to fight you tooth and nail." The strategy for the House battle was disclosed in June, when a Lockheed computer printout was leaked to the press. The 27-page document revealed that Lockheed executives and Air Force and Department of Defense officials had met almost every morning in the office of Air Force Major General Guy Hecker Jr. for strategy sessions. The printout listed more than 250 Congressmen who were...
...Services Subcommittee on Investigations is probing the possibility that the Pentagon broke a little-known (and never enforced) 1919 law that proscribes Government officials from spending tax dollars to influence legislation. Representative Norman Dicks of Washington, who spearheaded the battle for the 747 in the House, claimed that the printout "was a prima facie violation of the statute preventing Executive lobbying." Weinberger indignantly retorted that the Pentagon's effort was "solely as a result of the extraordinary volume of distorted information that they [Boeing] themselves have disseminated on Capitol Hill...
...hospitals. In the pulmonary lab at Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, after a patient exhales into an instrument that gauges lung functions, a computer program takes over. Named PUFF, it analyzes 250 factors that determine pulmonary dysfunction, then within 90 seconds issues a printout that may, in its own words, "indicate" or "suggest" what is wrong with the patient. Dr. Robert Fallal, the hospital's chief of pulmonary medicine, claims that in 85% of the cases, PUFF makes recommendations a doctor can use. "It is still rigid, and it has a problem with mixed diagnoses," says Fallat...
...state welfare office in Miami were convicted last year of stealing at least $300,000 worth of food stamps by falsifying data fed into the agency's computers. Two former employees of the Central Fidelity Bank in Lynchburg, Va., were convicted in December for obtaining a computer printout of that institution's securities customers and taking it to their new employer, the First National Exchange Bank in Roanoke. A clerk at the People's Savings Bank in Bridgeport, Conn., was arrested three weeks ago for filching $37,487. She allegedly used the bank's computer...
...announce "new" assurances on protection of the planes and access to the data they collect. The Senators were not buying. Later, in an open session, when Haig argued that the sale was a test of U.S. friendship with Saudi Arabia, Republican Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota waved a computer printout listing $38 billion in previous U.S. arms sales to the Saudis. Snapped Boschwitz: "What's the next test...