Word: alphabetization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...produced. Much of it is aimed at preschool-age children, who are largely ignored by mass-audience TV. The publishers of Golden Books have begun releasing video versions of their children's stories on 30-minute cassettes. Toys-R-Us, the nationwide toy chain, is now selling the Geoffrey Alphabet Video, which features National Geographic animal footage and original songs by Elizabeth Swados. Preschoolers can exercise and play along with Gymboree, an interactive cassette from Scholastic-Lorimar Home Video. Harried mothers can enliven a youngster's birthday celebration with Rainbow Brite's It's Your Birthday Party, a 45-minute...
Then the flight grew livelier. Things went wrong by the alphabet. The RCS (reaction control system) locked in the firing position. The GPC (general purpose computer) went down. Fire broke out in the APB (aft payload bay). Mission Commander Larry Cerier of Chicago and Pilot Bill Parker of Friendswood, Texas, worked out the problems coolly. The right stuff. They even got a little cocky. They began to try out banter over the radio in the style of deadpan macho that astronauts affect. When the fire started, Parker took emergency steps (activating switches to spray the area with a chemical fire...
Even if you do have to distinguish between today's weather and tomorrow's weather, who cares what letter of the alphabet the name starts with, Does anybody care that because the name of the twister starts with a "G," that means it is the seventh one of the year? Given our great concern for the different between cyclones, hurricanes, and tornadoes, this seems doubtful...
...Americans already baffled by their complex new phone bills and mystified by computers, the confrontation may seem like so much high-tech alphabet soup. But these new developments mean that AT&T and IBM are fighting to be first to provide all the equipment and services for transmitting, storing and processing information for the next century. It is a fragmented, turbulent but potentially rich market...
...those uninitiated is the alphabet group of New England baseball, the EIBL (Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League) is the eight Ivy schools plus Army and Navy, while the GBL (Greater Boston League) consist of Harvard, MIT, B.C., Northeastern, in Branders and Tufts...