Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...informed the company that a full-color 1981 Sports Illustrated cover showing $100 bills pouring through a basketball hoop was a violation of law. To prevent counterfeiting, federal law requires that publishers depict bills only in black and white and at less than 75% or more than 150% of actual size. The court turned down Time Inc.'s argument that the right of free expression was improperly restricted; a company spokesman said that Time Inc. would now consider lobbying for a change in Congress...
...third pro-Government decision grew out of plans for a 1982 demonstration in two parks near the White House. To call attention to the plight of the homeless, the Community for Creative Non-Violence proposed to put up 60 tents to house actual homeless people. The National Park Service authorized the tents, but invoked an anticamping regulation and refused to allow demonstrators to sleep in them...
...mystery. According to some counts, as many as a third of the surface-to-air and cruise missiles in the arsenal of the Soviet navy's northern fleet went up in smoke. But U.S. officials warned against attaching too much strategic importance to the accident. If an actual conflict came, said a senior Administration Kremlin watcher, the Soviets would "fire what they had on hand...
...beginning of actual fighting did catch the network's attention, but it did not end the correspondents' problems with bosses who were entertainment biggies, not newsmen. No one had ever covered a war by radio, but it was clear to Shirer and Murrow that the way to do it was to record the sounds of bombs and guns-and interviews with combatants when these could be arranged-and then to weave these bits into a nightly broadcast. The Germans, proud of their blitzkrieg success in the early months of the war, offered mobile recording facilities. CBS refused, Shirer...
...connect the machines to television sets and antennas. Owners must often pick their way through mazes of diagrams and technical terms like "One-touch type F connector" that seem to have been written for licensed electricians. Some manuals compound the confusion with illustrations that differ from the actual machine. Notes the 46-page booklet for a Panasonic OmniVision model: "Please be assured that this difference is not due to mistake but to ongoing product improvement...