Word: advent
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...there is an element of pathos in all of this, it is nowhere more evident than in the case of professors who have been victimized by the advent of technology. For example, an art lecturer I saw in mortal combat with a projectionist, describing the curves and masses of a cathedral for five minutes before realizing the image on the wall was that of a nude. After another five minutes had passed in total darkness, and he had totally given up on ever seeing the right slide, it suddenly appeared in full glory in the middle of his face. Watching...
Then there was the unmistakable dynamism of the preachers themselves. Graham caused such a sensation that his 1950 advent on ABC radio was foreordained. He made his TV debut the following year. Weekly shows, the basic unit of TV programming, did not begin until traveling Revivalist Rex Humbard happened by a crowd gazing into an Akron department-store window. Fashion < show? Puppets? No, a TV set. By 1953 Humbard was telecasting services weekly and in 1958 opened the splashy, 5,000-seat Cathedral of Tomorrow, the first church designed to be a TV studio. In 1955, at Humbard's urging...
...advent of fast-burn technology could cast a terminal gloom over any feasible Star Wars defense system. With a boost phase of only two minutes--less than half that of conventional weapons--fast-burning rockets could penetrate the atmosphere and detonate their "throw-weight" of multiple warheads in substantially greater numbers than proposed SDI equipment could contain...
Workfare first became government policy, at least in theory, more than a decade ago. Congress strengthened a Work Incentive (WIN) program in 1971 during the Nixon Administration. But WIN suffered from inadequate funding, mismanagement and weak enforcement. In 1981, with the advent of the Reagan Administration, Congress passed legislation granting states more flexibility in administering WIN. For the first time, AFDC recipients could work in public agencies rather than in private-sector jobs. States were also allowed to use part of a recipient's welfare grant as a wage subsidy to his or her private employer. Given these new liberties...
...those deals is finally totted up, it is certain to surpass the record $125 billion reached in 1984. Says Democratic Representative Timothy Wirth, who chairs a House subcommittee that has been studying acquisitions: "These mergers and takeovers are having as profound an impact on the American economy as the advent of the great railroads, the airplane and the telephone...