Word: access
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...relaxed, personable--and remarkably tuned in to the day-to-day details of her father's campaign. More so than her mother, Edwards says, Karenna embraces the daily grind of the campaign trail. And to help tell her dad's story to TIME, Karenna offered Edwards a family exclusive--access to lengthy interviews she had conducted with her grandmother, Pauline Gore...
...party with such close ties to Hollywood, their efforts at adding TV gloss to their stage show have been strictly public-access cable. For instance: If you didn't watch C-SPAN, you were spared the spectacle, but someone convinced the Dems it would be all telegenic and Elizabeth Dole-y to conduct "American Dialogues" - little faux talk shows in between speeches. Thus last night, Sen. Jay Rockefeller had the humiliating task of carrying a handheld mike and asking health-care questions of "average Americans" onstage, who gave canned, halting responses that they seemed to be trying to read...
Whatever position employers take on notification, those who monitor say their technology is worth it and offer some sobering numbers. A survey by the Computer Security Institute and the FBI found that 71% of respondents had detected unauthorized access to systems by insiders and that 79% had detected employee abuse of Internet privileges. In 1995 Chevron Corp. paid $2.2 million to four female employees who asserted that they had been sexually harassed because of jokes sent through the company network. For abuses to end, snooping proponents argue, monitoring must take place. Eaton, an A.C.L.U. member who supports notification laws, touts...
...that sniffs out inappropriate terms--as defined by whoever owns it--from incoming and outgoing e-mails. When it finds one, the program obliterates the e-mail or records it in a company database. San Diego firm Websense offers Websense Enterprise, a Trekkie name for a program that blocks access to inappropriate Web pages and logs every minute employees spend on each site...
Each Congressman was trying to outmaneuver the other in what is something of a popularity contest. But the sponsors of the festivities had their eye on the bottom line. Which of the two pro-business legislators wins scarcely matters to them so long as they maintain access to the winner...