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Word: weres (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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When LeeMah DataCom Security wanted to demonstrate the impregnability of its computer safeguard, the company decided to lay down a dare. The California firm, which provides equipment to protect mainframes against interlopers, challenged U.S. computer hackers to crack its code during a weeklong contest. In messages sent to electronic bulletin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMPUTERS Think You Can Hack It? | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

The number of American families living below the poverty line, currently an annual income of $12,091 for a family of four, fell last year to 13.1% of the population, from 13.4% in 1987. But that percentage is still higher than it was a decade ago, when it stood at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INCOME DISTRIBUTION Two Worlds, Moving Apart | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Granted, these worrisome conclusions rest on totally unscientific research. A few recent mentions prompted an inspection of my ego folder of clippings going back several years. Some of the contents were unsettling. Having no reason to believe that I was being singled out for special hazing, I decided that purveyors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Dog-Bites-Dog | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Political bias is only one element of the unchecked-error syndrome. Another could be labeled the pseudoauthoritative dodge. Washingtonian, a prosperous, glossy monthly, does an annual salary survey. This fall's version, listing hundreds of names linked to specific monetary figures, appears to be based on serious research. Eight TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Dog-Bites-Dog | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

For the sake of balance, I must report that many clips in my ego folder are unexceptionable. National Review, for instance, recently hollered indignantly about the tilt of something I'd written. Fair enough; my prose was quoted accurately. Still other stories are both factually correct and somewhere between benign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Dog-Bites-Dog | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

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