Word: centralization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Programs like Gnutella allow file-sharing without a central server that houses information about who its users are, making it very difficult to block access to the program...
...measure of the importance of the debate that all sides are impugning one another's motives. Lieberman is under a microscope just because he's Jewish, argued his defenders; his faith is central to who he is, and voters deserve to know where his values are rooted. But his critics counter that he never dipped so deep into Scripture in his past campaigns. This, they charge, is just cynical, focus-group politics by a campaign that has deployed Lieberman as a kind of moral turpentine for an Administration badly in need of a fresh coat of paint...
...into the Chinese hinterlands to spread the word of God covertly. Wendy Lawson, a member of the South Hills Assembly of God Church in Bethel Park, Pa., was trained for the Tract Bombers, the Service's most elite force. After a bruising half-day journey to get to the central Chinese city, the 51-year-old paramedic tucked her fair hair under a hat and crammed 300 religious pamphlets into the secret pockets of a custom-made vest. Then, from near midnight to the first glimmering of dawn, she and a posse of evangelists wandered down alleys in small-town...
...years, and the sort of federal meddling that drives conservatives and libertarians crazy. It's a long way from the Bush approach of just giving people straight cash and trusting them to do with it as they please. (He offers a few tax credits, but they aren't central to his plan.) As such, the argument between the candidates over tax cuts reflects a fundamental difference in how Republicans and Democrats view the world. "Gore is focused on achieving social objectives, as opposed to tax relief," says Reischauer. "The goal of Bush's plan is tax relief, pure and simple...
...journalists, who were arrested after Liberian authorities found a partial shooting script in the crew's hotel room, issued a written statement from Monrovia Central Prison saying they wanted "to express our unreserved apology to both his Excellency the President of Liberia, and the people of Liberia, for any offense which our actions or statements have caused... we will discontinue this project as regards Liberia...