Word: thumbprinted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next time you?re writing a check and get asked for ID, just give the cashier the thumbs-up. Get ready for the next step in the future of money: Thumbprint identification. It?s real, and it?s catching on all over the country. Banks in all 50 states have some version of the system, and may start requiring you to use it. Which is one of the reasons why Peter Taussig, a California businessman, is taking his bank to court. ?I was not going to give them fingerprints,? said Taussig Monday. ?Nor was I going to give a saliva...
...floor, cuffed his hands behind his back and identified themselves as FBI agents. "Who are you?" one of them demanded. "F___ you," Kansi snapped in his lightly accented English, and began screaming for help in his native Pashto language. Garrett knelt beside Kansi and took a thumbprint. A Midwesterner with a Ph.D. in criminology and a powerful memory, Garrett recognized the ridges and whorls. "We got him," he said. The G-men hustled their captive out of the hotel and into a waiting four-wheel-drive vehicle. By that night, Carter was able to send out a brief report...
...someone else proved that you could, in theory, focus gravity waves so precisely as to create a naked singularity. "Stephen took a while to accept the result," says Preskill, but now Hawking has paid up: [pounds]100 (about $163), some "clothing to cover the winner's nakedness" and a thumbprint on a concession statement. The physicist didn't give in easily. The message on the T shirts he gave Thorne and Preskill reads, NATURE ABHORS A NAKED SINGULARITY...
...Israeli secret), to monitor the movement of Palestinians living in the occupied territories. Singapore, known for its strict regulation of everything from littering to drug peddling, has purchased more than $12 million worth of computer equipment from NEC, including a machine-readable ID-card system (with laser-engraved thumbprint) and an automated fingerprint-identification system...
...what a thumbprint it can be. Each term the court must choose the 150 or so cases it will consider out of more than 4,000 petitions. The Justices -- six of whom pool their clerks for this purpose -- lean on the memos of their young assistants to help them pick the cases to hear. Once the docket is ^ selected, the clerks turn out even more detailed documents, called bench memos, exploring and analyzing all possible sides of the disputes, to prepare their Justices for the oral arguments...