Word: protected
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Many national governments, he said, lack the expertise necessary to use computer technology. Such nations could suffer unless they can protect themselves from more advanced ones which could use technology to exploit them, Bell said...
...these fatal procedural flaws be corrected? Rogers is trying to protect his commission's proposals against premature disclosure. "These are for the President," he told his commissioners. Still, some recommendations seem almost obvious. NASA headquarters must take firm control of its sprawling agency, even while cutting back on its paper flow. Anyone in the system holding a strong view on a safety problem must feel free to raise it at any level, rather than being limited to his own reporting channel...
...members of what seems to be a satanic religious cult, whose chief form of worship is serial killing. Ultimately their evil energy is focused on a model, played by Brigitte Nielsen (Mrs. Stallone in private life), who is the only witness to one of their crimes. Assigned to protect her, Cobra reluctantly (indeed, spiritlessly) falls in love with her. But this is presented as a distraction from his main line of business, which is to polish his arsenal in preparation for the climax in which he wipes out the whole mob of "sickos" in a single confrontation...
...affirmative action, prompting Reagan Administration lawyers and liberal civil rights activists alike to claim that the results really favored them. Last week, in what may prove to be a decisive course marker, the court struck down by a 5-4 vote a Michigan school-district plan that sought to protect minority hiring gains by laying off white teachers ahead of blacks with less seniority. It was a decision with a bit of something for everyone...
Warren Burger, who wrote both majority opinions, stated in the California case that although residential yards are ordinarily fully covered by the privacy safeguards of the Fourth Amendment, it was unreasonable to expect such protection for activities that are "visible to the naked eye" by police "traveling in the public airways." In the Dow case Burger went further, saying that a factory area was not comparable to a private yard, and that the $22,000 magnifying camera used by the EPA was not in the same league as high- tech snooping devices that might require a search warrant. The majority...