Word: access
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...today's society, which, as mentioned in the movie, is increasingly becoming a meritocracy. The very fact that McNamara is at Y University to begin with despite its costs is proof that times have changed. And although McNamara is captivated with the idea of being a Skull and having access to the wealth, class and power available to the group's members, the rules and rituals that accompany membership are ridiculous and antiquated symbols of an organization whose time has clearly passed...
...Telecom, announced its intention to spin off non-core businesses like HKT, Richard realized that HKT had assets he could use. Chief among them: its broadband Internet service, which has 100,000 customers; its cellular-phone system and the potential of new, third-generation cellular technology to enable Internet access; and rights to a valuable deal signed by Murdoch's Star TV to provide television shows for HKT's broadband network. He eventually offered shareholders a package of shares and cash that could cost him $12 billion...
...Mayor Luzhkov joined forces to form Fatherland, their victory--first in Duma elections and then the presidential race--seemed inevitable. Within a couple of months, however, they had been reduced to bit players. The main weapon employed by Pavlovsky was the Internet. Only a million or so Russians have access to the Web, he notes, but they are the elite--in universities, government offices, security services and the mass media. This makes the Net a powerful yet dangerous tool, Pavlovsky remarked recently. Through it, he explains, black propaganda can easily be "laundered" into "white" press reports...
...Increase in White House phone bills after an Army sergeant working in the White House Communications Agency gave its long-distance-access code to acquaintances, who made 9,400 unauthorized calls in two months...
...project EarthScope, quake researchers hope to create a geological "microscope" by drilling a hole beside the San Andreas at one of its most active regions, turning their drill 45[degrees] at 1 1/2 miles deep, and then boring right through the fault. This would give scientists their first direct access to an earthquake-initiation site, where they could set up monitors to observe changes in temperature, fluid pressure, gas composition and all the other vital signs of geological activity...