Word: revealed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...advantage to computer users is that they can decide how much information they want to reveal while limiting their exposure to intrusive marketing techniques. The advantage to Website entrepreneurs is that they learn about their customers' tastes without intruding on their privacy...
...skittish about leaving any footprints in cyberspace. Susan Scott, executive director of TRUSTe, a firm based in Palo Alto, Calif., that rates Websites according to the level of privacy they afford, says a survey her company sponsored found that 41% of respondents would quit a Web page rather than reveal any personal information about themselves. About 25% said when they do volunteer information, they lie. "The users want access, but they don't want to get correspondence back," she says...
...stakes and greater public awareness, observes Michael Hall, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of Global Programs, the 1997-98 El Nino is shaping up as something more significant than another mighty misfire of the weather machine. It is also a social experiment that will reveal how people around the world react to climate change that is predictable in its broad outlines but unknowable in its details...
...last juicy tidbits of the coroner's report on JonBenet Ramsey are released to expectant reporters, but TIME's Dick Woodbury says it's a toss-up whether the information will reveal anything...
...prompted much irrational aggression. In 1978 Pol Pot launched attacks on Vietnam, bragging that one Cambodian soldier could kill eight Vietnamese. It is a behavior pattern that is deeply rooted in the national psyche: to hold power one must show the utmost ferocity and single-mindedness and never reveal weakness...