Word: employed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discourage sabotage by hackers, users must pledge to employ PEN for only legal purposes before they are allowed access to the system. "We expect to get a lot of the same questions we're getting now," says Assistant City Manager Lynne Barrette. " 'What's the status of a particular issue? To whom do I complain about the tree trimming on my street?' -- only via the computer...
...this fall The Crimson ran a small box on its front page announcing that after 115 years. The Crimson would now employ gender neutral terminology. Chairmen would now be referred to as chairs, and spokesmen would be spokespersons...
...machine bombards luggage with neutrons that interact with the nitrogen in explosives, touching off a characteristic pattern of gamma rays. In tests conducted last summer at Los Angeles and San Francisco airports, the devices spotted more than 95% of suitcases containing test samples of explosive materials. But because they employ dangerous radiation, the machines, which cost as much as $1 million each, cannot be used on passengers...
...uncontrollable mass that can breach containment walls and release radioactivity. One way to prevent a meltdown is to make sure the fuel is always surrounded with circulating coolant -- ordinary water in most commercial reactors. To guard against mechanical failures that could interrupt the transfer of heat, most reactors employ multiple backup systems, a strategy known as "defense in depth...
...problem is not just large numbers of people who are insufficiently educated. Never before have the majority of American jobs placed so many demands on employees. To compete effectively, the average American worker today must employ skills at a ninth-to-twelfth-grade level, in contrast to the typical fourth-grade standard during World War II. "It's not that people are becoming less literate," points out Irwin Kirsch, a senior research psychologist working for the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J. "It's that we keep raising the standards...