Word: tampere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tamper -- under any circumstances -- with last year's accord to reduce the budget deficit. Changing it now would open a Pandora's box of troubles and raise inflation fears...
...Campbell, vice president of operations for the Pittston Coal Group, one of the companies cited for alleged tampering, bristles at talk of cheating on dust samples. "I've never seen anyone tamper with the dust-sampling system. It angers me that people say they try to beat the system. It's there to protect people...
Fearing that the souring economy will lead to even more thefts, retailers are resorting to novel deterrents. One innovation is an "ink tag," a plastic disk containing three glass vials of indelible ink that is attached to a garment and removable only with a special tool. Tamper with the tag and the ink spills, staining the fabric and perhaps a finger or two. "We're saying, 'Get away with it if you want, but why are you bothering?' " says Robert DiLonardo, marketing chief of Security Tags Systems Inc., the major U.S. manufacturer. His firm has marketed nearly 2 million...
Should the Iraqis elect to tamper with the uranium in the future, U.S. experts estimate, the process of turning it into a bomb would take a minimum of several months. Since an IAEA inspection might occur within that period, a diversion could be detected before an Iraqi nuclear bomb became a fait accompli. Even if Saddam's scientists succeeded in using the salvaged core to make a bomb, most U.S. experts believe it would be so bulky that it could not be launched by any missile or bomber Iraq possesses, and would thus have to be delivered to its detonation...
Whether the case is already jeopardized or not, the fact remains that no judicial decision has been made. The case may be thrown out for other reasons, but CNN has no justification to tamper willingly with the process...