The government must get approval to snoop from a FISA court, which is untroubled by niceties such as probable cause, and the communications in question need only pertain to "foreign intelligence information", a phrase so broad as to be utterly meaningless.In extending the FISA Amendments Act, the Senate rejected four sensible amendments.
According to Weiss and Pomerantsev, this kind of media manipulation amounts to a "weaponisation of information", a phrase also used in relation to Russia by Mark Galeotti, a professor of global affairs at New York University.
She was writing gently satiric novels; he had made a name for himself as an "information architect," a phrase he coined to describe what he and others were increasingly doing, which was organizing data -- information -- into clear patterns.
Correction: October 11 , 2001 Thursday Because of an editing error, a front-page article yesterday about a dispute between President Bush and Congress over access to classified information rendered a phrase incorrectly in a comment from the president.
Gore, who once made what proved to be the very embarassing claim to have invented the Internet, really did push through a fair amount of legislation that helped build the Information Superhighway (a phrase he really did invent).
Information literacy is a phrase designed to highlight the role of librarians; unfortunately, librarians are usually the only people on a campus familiar with the phrase.
The assumption is that once government "knows" everything about its citizens, and knows it everywhere in government, and has (to coin a phrase) total information awareness, then it can better serve them individually, taking infinitely more decisions, infinitely better.
An article on Wednesday about the Arkansas Project, an effort at The American Spectator to unearth damaging information about President Clinton, attributed a phrase incorrectly to the magazine's publisher, Terry Eastland.
If, on the other hand, a phrase provides information about a noun that is crucial to the point of the sentence (as in "Every Cambridge restaurant which failed to clean its grease trap was infested with roaches", where omitting the italicised phrase would radically alter the meaning), and if it is pronounced within the same intonation contour as the noun, then don't set it off with punctuation.
But, according to subsequent filings by the Department of Justice, "black edge" was "a phrase meaning inside information".
Instead of volunteering this information, she phrased it as an action item, and since this is something the professional wants/needs, she has pretty much guaranteed that he will write her back.
