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• n  equipment designed to serve a specific function
• n  (anatomy) a group of body parts that work together to perform a given function
  the breathing apparatus

• When the apparatus had run for a day, the water grew pinkish, then turned red.
• Sandia actually has a huge security apparatus designed to ensure that the nuclear lab's secrets stay safe.
• We are very confident about the performance of our security apparatus.

• setup

News & Articles

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• Citizen, Get Off Grid To Foil Big Brother
  LONDON Phone call logs, credit card records, emails, Skype chats, Facebook messages and more: The precise nature of the NSA's sweeping surveillance apparatus has yet to be confirmed. But given the revelations spilling out into the media recently, there
  June 16, 2013 - Las Vegas Review-Journal
• Slideshow: 6 tips for keeping your data safe from spying
  Phone call logs, credit card records, emails, Skype chats, Facebook message, and more: The precise nature of the NSA's sweeping surveillance apparatus has yet to be confirmed.
  June 15, 2013 - The Sacramento Bee
• Snowden Is Using 'Specific' Evidence of the U.S. Hacking China to Stay Out of Jail
  Edward Snowden, the NSA leaker who has turned the United States intelligence apparatus upside-down, said that he won't be extradited back home without a fight. That fight won't take him to Britain in the meantime, but it does apparently involve letting the Chinese government know that he has information on the United States "using technical exploits to gain unauthorised access to civilian ...
  June 14, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Anthony Kennedy in Christian Science Monitor
  Security depends upon a sophisticated intelligence apparatus and the ability of our Armed Forces to act and to interdict,Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion. "Security subsists, too, in fidelity to freedom's first...
• Barack Obama in CNN
  I think it's going to take some time and our legal teams are working in consultation with our national security apparatus as we speak, to help design exactly what we need to do,Obama said.
• Tom Lantos in BBC News
  Mr Lantos added: "I do not believe America's brightest and best companies should be playing integral roles in China's notorious and brutal political repression apparatus."