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Santis speaks of similar problems: as technology increasingly centralizes operating procedures but diversifies access "you're getting a potentially dangerous change in areas like separation of duties," he says. "Whereas before you'd have one guy who'd write the check now they're being done by the same data operator." It is from inside and costs the company $500,000 whereas average white-collar crimes are for $20,000," Santis says...
...very dependent on computers and telecom telecommunications says Cameron Carey president of the Computer Security Placement Service in Northborough Mass a headhunter company that finds executives for computer security firms. "Money markets and bank turn over their whole holdings every day: billions and billions of dollars. You can't write orders without a computer. You can't ask about inventories. If there's a disaster, some organizations are going to go out of business. The bottom line is that as companies automate more and more the tolerance for outtage decreases, the dependency increases...
...main consideration for a Chinese journalist is whether an article is profitable for the government and for the people. "If it's good, then we can write it," Yang says. Moreover, the primary duty of the press is to explain Chinese policy and to convince the people that the policy is right, she continues. "Of course, we only say the truth, not the false," Hsiao adds...
According to Hsiao and Yang, the Chinese press functions on principles entirely different from American principles. Hsiao says that in America "you write anything you like," citing the articles published in The Washington Post and The New York Times about the Pentagon Papers in 1970. If an incident of a comparable top-secret nature occurred in China, "we can't issue it," Hsiao says...
...each jockey is primarily affiliated with a trainer, a rider is only as good as his trainer's stable. For two years, Cauthen's stable was afflicted with an equine virus. During his first year, he won 52 races; during his second, 61. Respectable, but nothing to write the folks back home about. "It wasn't that I lacked ability when I first came," says Cauthen carefully. "I lacked experience. But I stuck it out, and it's paid off for me. I think most people felt that after the first year I'd bugger...