Word: protocolic
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...After the draining mishap, he went ahead and emptied the three problem plutonium tanks without upgrading the entire building, and he retrained just 12 workers instead of all 150. He slashed the number of signatures needed to get visitors into high-security areas from nine to three. Ignoring bureaucratic protocol, he and Kaiser-Hill excavated toxic soils from an area known as Ryan's Pit without preparing exhaustive studies. Silverman bristles at the seemingly arbitrary personnel rules he's supposed to follow. "Why does it take 16 people to move a single barrel from one building to another?" he asks...
Sporting more than 50 new members, the 80-seat Undergraduate Council held its annual orientation meeting in Boylston Hall last night, where new members were introduced to all aspects of council protocol, from parliamentary procedure to attendance to officer elections...
...occasion for the unusual protocol was the seating of the newest member of the Corporation, James R. Houghton '58, chair and CEO of Corning...
Netscape Communications Corporation, known for its popular World Wide Web browser, went public in August; shares started trading on the secondary market at a 300 percent premium. The company later suffered the public humiliation of having its transaction security protocol cracked twice--first by a French hacker who cracked the international version, then by a pair of computer science students at the University of California at Berkeley who cracked the (supposedly more secure) domestic version...
...When I arrived at the Iraqi border crossing, they never even asked me for my passport. We arrived in Amman at 3:30 in the morning of Aug. 8. I don't know Amman very well because on previous trips all our arrangements were taken care of by Jordanian protocol. It was rather difficult to reach a hotel. We found a taxi, and I asked somebody from our security detail to get into the taxi and take us to a hotel...