Word: program
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...Fujimori-Toledo battle is less about policy than leadership style. Both men are committed to a program of economic reform and liberalization, but Toledo is challenging the president's increasingly authoritarian grip on power. Indeed, Fujimori's own constitution allows only two presidential terms, but he found a loophole to permit himself a third, and his supporters in Congress dismissed the constitutional court judges who demurred. But despite the strong public support he won in the early '90s for reining in inflation and facing down two leftist guerrilla insurgencies, many voters have turned against Fujimori. "The economy is stagnating with...
...political fray, the bureau has invested heavily in television ads, currently in rotation across the country, which depict various and wholly unpleasant effects of dismissing the importance of a census form. A young mother struggling to hold down a job without the benefit of a local Head Start program, a farmer and his wife watching helplessly as their fire department struggles to fight a raging barn fire without working hoses...
Normally, movies on DVD are encrypted through a "content scrambling system," which prevents the material from being played on unlicensed playback devices. DeCSS, a program created last fall, bypasses this encryption system, allowing a user to copy and view movies at will...
...program is at the heart of three ongoing lawsuits filed by the MPAA and movie industry lobbying groups on the basis of the DMCA...
DeCSS gained worldwide attention on Jan. 24, when 16-year-old Jon Johansen of Norway, one of the program's three creators, was detained for questioning by Norwegian officials and charged with violating copyright...