Word: measuresã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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Summers praised the report as a “comprehensive and very constructive document that outlines a promising direction for the future,” and pledged to work quickly to implement “appropriate measures?? following the comment period...
...powdered anthrax by U.S. mail. However, despite myriad screens showing the vanquishing of evil-doers, there is no record of violent attempts on provincial movie theatres. Hotels in midtown Manhattan and shabby train station waiting areas have also come this far unscathed. The sorts of “security measures?? implemented by these businesses are not designed to protect public security; instead, their sole intention is to protect the highly vulnerable security of businesses’ pocketbooks...
...several instances, Republicans agreed to modify the harsh language of their original proposal. The Bush administration had asked for indefinite powers to detain immigrants, and Congress settled on a seven-day limit. The House also imposed a sunset provision on expanded surveillance measures??permission to use certain telephone and computer wiretaps without warrants will expire in four years rather than persist indefinitely...
...seek to reconstruct our lives after the events of Sept. 11, it is important not to let confusion, intimidation or fear rule our actions. Instead, we must preserve the freedoms and liberties that have characterized this country. Calls for new security measures??at any cost —are now easy to make; it is much harder to preserve our basic civil liberties...
Simple security measures??guards and metal detectors at building entrances, ID checks, and bollards, which are concrete pots that guard against car bombs, around key buildings—can have a strong deterrent effect...