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...does not have to be a whiz kid to uncover secrets hidden in a computer. Many large office systems have a hierarchy of password privileges that gives supervisors access to the files of subordinates and systems operators access to everything. At the San Francisco Examiner, which like most modern newspapers is highly computerized, employees have to be reminded from time to time that "cruising the baskets" (reading the private files) of their co- workers is a serious breach of privacy...
...SEEMS that we are trapped in an infinitely spiraling dooms-day machine project that will surely lead to the eventual destruction of the human species as we know it. And hopefully we'll take home shopping networks and cheez-whiz with us when we go. Sad though this destiny may be, if it's going to happen anyway, we might as well make some money...
...groomed for leadership in the halls of power that honeycomb the sacred ground under the cathedral in Canterbury. He was the golden boy, the whiz kid, the man the archbishops turned to before risking a dangerous political maneuver. He walked the path of God. Name: Terry Waite, the Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy...
...such trading, advertently or not, by failing to maintain the so-called Chinese walls of discretion between their investment-banking divisions and their trading departments. That may have been the case in one of the insider-trading arrangements allegedly started by Martin Siegel, the former Kidder, Peabody merger whiz kid who pleaded guilty Feb. 13 to charges of illegal stock trading and tax evasion. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Kidder, Peabody's chief executive, Ralph DeNunzio, ordered Siegel in March 1984 to create an arbitrage department to speculate on takeover stocks, and to keep this special assignment...
...gourmets may balk when it comes to the Lone Star broccoli casserole, the preferred dish of Mayor Jerry V. Debo III of Grand Prairie, Texas. The ingredients: two boxes of frozen broccoli, one can of cream of celery soup, one cup of rice and one jar of Cheez Whiz...