Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prevent this new kind of criminal activity, computer users and manufacturers are pushing for touch new laws against "illegal entry," and "illegal manipulation of data." "To a great extent, if there are laws that have teeth in them, they can discourage a lot of the [criminal] actions we're talking about," says Ganaghan Prime and other Massachusetts high technology companies have been working with the Lioutenant Governor's Office for the past year deafting what many consultants call model computer crime legislation. Under the proposed law unauthorized users of computer systems would be viewed as electronic trespassers and suffer stiff...
...track, he might be found on a golf course or perhaps riding to hounds with the local gentry. His manners are impeccable, complemented by a bearing that is slightly distant. His accent is what practiced observers of the Anglo-American scene have always called, with a touch of condescension, mid-Atlantic: neither here nor there...
...prevent a new price explosion, the South Korean government tightened the money supply and held public spending in 1984 to its 1983 levels. That turned out to be the right touch of restraint. Growth has cooled, but it is still a robust 7.8%. Meanwhile, inflation has stayed below...
There are good touches, such as a relative's loving hug or a baby-sitter's 3 tickle. "But if it doesn't stop or makes you feel uncomfortable," she says, "it's a bad touch," the kind that can give you that "uh-oh feeling." When that happens, she goes on, "trust your feelings. Say 'I don't want to,' and get away as fast as you can. Then keep telling your story until you are believed...
Until a few years ago, barely a school would touch the loaded subject of sex abuse, let alone make it part of the curriculum. It seemed none of the schools' business. Furthermore, molested youngsters rarely told, either cowed by a stranger's threat or, if the offender was some one close, shamed by the act or fearful of a family blowup. Besides, most grownups tended to brush off chil dren's tales of abuse as fantastic...