Word: inspection
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...level canal required far more voluminous and difficult digging in mountainous Panama than had been necessary in the Middle Eastern sands. Few of the celebrated French engineers De Lesseps invited to inspect his plan approved it (among the doubters: Gustave Eiffel, the tower builder). The doubts were soon borne out: in 1889, De Lesseps' company went bankrupt. By that time, the French had moved 50 million cubic meters of earth?two-thirds of the amount moved at Suez. In the process, some 20,000 workers died of malaria and yellow fever (whose causes were thought to be noxious jungle vapors...
...chamber is spurring a campaign to lure legitimate business back to Sunset Strip and close down porn establishments. One of its favorite techniques: to ask the city to inspect buildings for safety and zoning violations. Citizens have picketed notorious crossroads like the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and Western Avenue in protest against porn, and some 160,000 people signed a petition complaining against the sex merchants. Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett narrated a slide show titled, appropriately enough, Hooray for Hollywood. The 40-member Revitalize Hollywood Committee, a community cross section of producers, actors and businessmen organized by Councilwoman Peggy...
Once people surrender personal details-for instance, to banks in applying for mortgages- they lose control over the information forever. They have no legal right to inspect most private files to contest or correct them. Nor can they prevent the records from being shared among banks, credit bureaus and insurance companies, or shown to employers. or turned over to law enforce ment agencies. Says Douglas Lea, counsel to the Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights: "Privacy is power. What we're really talking about is whether the Government and other large organizations will have power over the individual." Warns California...
...data that may be wrong often gather far more information than is needed and sometimes use illegal methods. While people have a legal right to know what information is kept about them by credit bureaus- so that it can be corrected- they do not have a similar right to inspect files maintained on them by private investigators, insurance companies and other businesses. Says Linowes: "There were enough stories of data misuse to suggest that the potential for abuse is limitless...
...million house is not a home-and it no longer symbolizes California. As just about everybody knows by now Reagan's successor, Jerry Brown, refuses to inspect, much less inhabit the abode, conspicuously preferring to bunk downtown in a modest $275-a-month apartment. Today this monument to the California dream stands cold and mute, an incongruous reminder of an era that no longer exists...