Word: reno
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This announcement is for airline bosses sitting in the first class section: Fasten your seat belts -- you are about to encounter turbulence. Yes, on Thursday Attorney General Janet Reno announced the launching of a major antitrust suit against American Airlines. The charge: predatory practices by American at its Dallas-Fort Worth hub -- such as the calculated use of lower fares and more flights -- to push out start-up airlines. "This is the first major action of its kind since deregulation of the industry in 1978," says TIME senior business writer John Greenwald. And together with the department?s announcement that...
...within the household as it is out on the Web itself. There are thousands of families in which reading the kids' e-mail, monitoring their chats and tracking their Web travels is a solemn parental obligation. "I have every right to read their e-mail," says Bruce Cohen, a Reno, Nev., father of two. "Legally, I'm responsible for them until they're 18." Yet many others believe that invading an e-mail file is no different from opening a pen-and-paper diary that your daughter keeps under lock and key in a dresser drawer. A lot of parents...
...Albuquerque agents filed their warrant request with the Justice Department in July 1997. Officials there concluded that the FBI did not have sufficient proof that Lee posed a national-security threat grave enough to merit a raid on his computer. Exasperated FBI authorities appealed to Attorney General Janet Reno, but she wouldn't budge. Attempts to get more goods on Lee turned up nothing. Says a veteran counterespionage investigator of China's spy network: "They're everywhere, but it's hard to catch them doing anything...
...Clinton administration has finally interceded in the boiling controversy over racial profiling. The practice, used by law enforcement officials to identify individuals with certain racial or other characteristics statistically associated with criminal activity, is at the heart of a broad outcry over police discrimination. Attorney General Janet Reno, who has been meeting with police chiefs from around the country, said at her weekly press conference that she would ask police departments to start collecting data on the issue. Customs Commissioner Raymond Kelly, meanwhile, is creating an independent panel to review his agency's own policies and procedures...
...what counts as a confession. Women can be Janet Reno or Monica Lewinsky (for argument s sake, we ll say she s pretty). Everyone understands the concept of not pretty equals intelligent equals better than men, while pretty equals dumb equals slave to men. We categorize women into butch or airhead, prude or slut, dim-wit or smartadivisions with little gradation in between. Men, on the other hand, have the liberty of wearing pretty much anything and still having their intelligence and ability determined byasurprise!atheir intelligence and ability. The unfair smart-or-dumb distinction for women looks like...