Word: tappings
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...keys" to Clipper could arbitrarily "scan through any piece of data they deem necessary," perhaps "in the name of national security." His first error is in believing that this situation is new and unique to the Internet. Evidently, Mr. Liu is unfamiliar with the concept of a phone tap...
...Orbison classic, Oh, Pretty Woman: "Big hairy woman, you need to shave that stuff/ Big hairy woman, you know I bet it's tough/ Big hairy woman, all that hair ain't legit/ 'cause you look like 'Cousin It.' " Slowly, almost imperceptibly, Justice David Souter's foot begins to tap...
...equipped with the chip could, with proper authorization, be cracked by the government. Law-enforcement agencies say they need this capability to keep tabs on drug runners, terrorists and spies. Critics denounce the Clipper -- and a bill before Congress that would require phone companies to make it easy to tap the new digital phones -- as Big Brotherly tools that will strip citizens of whatever privacy they still have in the computer...
...members who did not know how to tap kegs"accused kegs of being defective" and toldstudents "that they were out of beer when therewas a keg and a half left," Fiorino said...
...losing presidential candidates -- Ted Kennedy, Ed Muskie and Jesse Jackson -- often tying the party establishment in knots with his knowledge of arcane rules and procedures. But he signed on early with Clinton and later became his New York City convention manager. After the election, Clinton was ready to tap him to be deputy chief of staff when federal investigators launched a probe of Ickes' law firm's work for a union alleged to have ties to organized crime. When federal officials cleared his name last fall, the Clintons pressed him to run the struggling health-care effort...