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Just think how many words must have been coined by writers whose works are the only ones extant from early periods of the language: people who misuse citation dictionaries must think that Richard Rolle of Hampole, Holinshed, Chaucer, Shakespeare, and a handful of other geniuses sat down one day and invented the English language, making up the words as they went along.
GAO/AIMD00295, September 6, 2000) showed that in 24 agencies, physical and logical access controls were not effective in preventing or detecting system intrusions or misuse.
) At the very least, anti-drug laws misuse prison space: About 60 percent of all federal prisoners are serving time for drug-related offenses, some involving simple possession of marijuana or cocaine.
On top of this sorry civil-liberties record are the misuse of the FBI in the White House's own original travel-office investigation, and what has come to be known as Filegate.
He writes, "Misuse of courts and government agencies is a particularly effective means of delaying or stifling competition."