Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill-was needed to verify claims. The same computer contains highly personal facts, including family income, expenditures and assets, that are supposed to be kept private. Though Social Security officials assured the Linowes commission that safeguards had been designed to keep the insurers from obtaining this information, a recent test of the system showed that this was not true. Security has been tightened, but the goof underscored Linowes' point that "there does not exist a means of guaranteeing complete confidentiality of data stored in a computer bank. We just don't have the technology...
...third of its permanent residents, would leave if given the chance. This was big news. By 1972 California migration was 90% below the annual rate of 300,000 who entered during the '60s. The recession of 1974 destroyed California's illusion of invincibility. Weaned on the high-test economy of the '60s, the state sputtered and wheezed as it geared down to the era of limits. It seemed to have more than its share of problems. Compton's street gangs and the Mexican mafia of East Los Angeles were just as bad as their counterparts back...
...should not have been surprised. At any rate, at his press conference last week, Carter offered a different -though hardly new-explanation for the slow progress of U.S.-Soviet negotiations. He had put forward new and sweeping proposals (a ban on all nuclear tests, a sharp reduction in nuclear weapons) and, he said, "these new ideas obviously take more time." Carter pointed out that talks with the Russians on SALT, the test ban and limiting arms sales were proceeding "with very good attitudes on the part of the Soviets." He said he would welcome a meeting with Brezhnev, although before...
...test the authenticity of Smith's manuscript for a book they are preparing, the researchers gave photocopies of sample pages from the Mormon archives and known specimens of Spalding's writing to three handwriting experts: Henry Silver, William Kaye and Howard Doulder. All three have broad credentials for such work (though Silver and Kaye reached opposite conclusions about whether Howard Hughes wrote the so-called Mormon will). Working independently and not knowing about any tie to the Book of Mormon, all three decided that the same man had written both sets of documents...
...that seriously undermines the nation's clean-air standards, while the Senate favors legislation that holds the environmental lines. So wide is the gulf that Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie, a principal author of the original bill, fears a long, hot summer. Says he: "Reaching agreement will test the legislative process to its limit." The main areas of dispute...