Word: disconnect
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time when it considers the case of Nancy Cruzan, 32, a Missouri factory worker who has been in an irreversible vegetative state for six years. The court has been asked to decide whether there is a constitutional right of privacy broad enough to allow Cruzan's family to disconnect the feeding tubes that nourish her, and thereby to let her die. An alliance of disability-rights activists and antiabortion groups has already begun to clash with patients' advocates and civil libertarians in what promises to be a bitter battle...
...told, the Federal Trade Commission estimates, con artists working the phones got away with at least $1 billion last year. Other fraud experts put the total as high as $10 billion. Legislators and law-enforcement agencies have stepped up their efforts to disconnect the crooks, but at the moment they are operating almost with impunity. Says William Sullivan, chief of the Illinois attorney general's consumer-protection division: "Lawyers, doctors, policemen -- every spectrum of society is being taken...
...huge disconnect occurred. Reagan, understanding better than Beltway insiders what really interests voters, usually concentrated on a handful of fundamentals. Having established his credibility early, he was able to get by on what amounted to a TV-era version of bread and circuses. The bread was the economic recovery, which created a sense of well-being among most members of the middle and upper classes. The circuses were mainly Reagan's performances as head of state, in which he could be as inspiring, consoling, reassuring or entertaining as the event demanded. After the Challenger disaster, for instance, his moving speech...
...computer community is generally displeased with both the Penatgon's decision to disconnect the "mail bridges" that connect the two networks and the fact that Pentagon officials did not announce its decision to system users...
...publicity has triggered a certain amount of hysteria. Systems managers have imposed elaborate quarantines on their companies' machines. Computer columnists have advised readers to put their PCs under lock and key and, in one radical proposal, to disconnect their machines permanently from all data networks and telephone lines. Data-processing managers have rushed to stock up on antiviral programs. "We're seeing panic buying by those who have already been hit," says William Agne, president of ComNetco, which publishes Viru- Safe. When a virus showed up at the University of Delaware, the assistant manager of academic computing services immediately bought...