Word: tap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...code has now been amended to make it illegal to "incite public unrest." The punishment for the new crime: up to three years in prison. In addition, it is illegal to "collect" antistate publications; under martial law it was only illegal to print or distribute them. Similarly, the routine tapping of telephone conversations will be suspended. But the government will retain the right to tap phone calls at its discretion, and is now permitted, for the first time, to use tape recordings of those conversations as evidence in trials...
...people behind this show, Executive Producer Bruce Paltrow and a squad of four writer-producer-directors, want to tap into the vein of familiar everyday crisis that fuels all melodrama. What often sends them wide of the mark is a penchant for insipid shock value (a make-out scene in a morgue) and a sentimental streak as wide as an emergency ward. When James Coco and Doris Roberts appeared last week as two street derelicts, they seemed to bring everything in their ragtag baggage but a violin and a cup. Roberts, facing the amputation of both feet because her frozen...
...branch of the Department of Defense, the NSA has the primary task of monitoring the communications of foreign governments and protecting the electronic communications of the United States. Thousands of listening posts worldwide and a vast computer complex in Maryland allow the NSA to tap into and record all electronic messages entering or leaving the country. A 1975 post-Watergate Senate panel described the NSA setup as a "giant vacuum cleaner." But unlike domestic law-enforcement agencies, which must obtain a warrant from a Federal Judge before tapping phone messages, the NSA gets warrants from a special secret panel...
...took Debbie's clear and then it was one-on-one with the goalie." Mayer said it was just a soft low tap into...
Voice Mail. When advertising executives in Doyle Dane Bernbach's San Francisco office want to reach staffers traveling around the U.S. or Europe, they simply tap out a telephone number and leave a message in an electronic "voice mailbox," a kind of computerized answering service. Later the traveling employees can listen at their convenience. Says Executive Vice President Brice Schuller: "Most of us are usually on the go, so we just dump a message into a guy's phone mailbox and he can step into any phone booth...