Word: controller
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There are few things that anger N.R.A. leaders as much as their reputation for recklessly opposing even the most sensible gun limits. Their goal, they insist, has been to ensure that gun-control laws are drafted tightly enough so that legitimate weapons and ammunition are not affected. They say their no- retreat, no-surrender approach to most battles is just tactical. "You don't give up ground from the first day," says chief lobbyist Baker...
...well as gun owners. If the N.R.A. has the appeal of a faith, it also has the weaknesses of many religions. Faith can be too blunt and brittle, too full of certainties to engage all the dense dilemmas of American life. In a matter as complex as gun control, the mind that allows room for question marks can have its advantages over the one that says "period." It may be, as Joe Foss says, that gun owners in America are content to let the N.R.A. fight their battles. Then again, perhaps gun owners are not sure that it is always...
...Reflecting on their arguments, our editors decided to take an in-depth look at the N.R.A. itself. The result is this week's cover articles, which include a defense of gun ownership by J. Warren Cassidy, the N.R.A.'s executive vice president, and an argument for strict new gun-control laws by Sarah Brady, whose husband James was shot in the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan...
...high- tech system replaces a low-tech one. Because most electronic systems are thoroughly interconnected, their failures tend to be all-or-nothing affairs. They do not, as computer scientists put it, degrade gracefully; they crash. Moreover, what is gained in speed and productivity is often lost in control, reliability and -- for lack of a better word -- transparency. When a system of gears and levers stops working, its operators can roll up their sleeves, raise the hood and go to work. When a microchip goes bad, its circuits are unlikely to respond to on-the-spot ministrations...
...Slobodan Milosevic, has become wildly popular among his fellow Serbs. But his ) strident chauvinism and the rest of the federation's fears of the Serbs, who account for more than 8 million of Yugoslavia's 24 million people, could be pushing the country toward disintegration. Milosevic has reasserted Serbian control over Kosovo, the historic cradle of Serbian culture and religion but today an autonomous enclave where 90% of the 1.9 million population is Albanian. In the process, he has touched off violent riots and alienated much of the rest of Yugoslavia...