Word: armfuls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...diligence. Children will need help programming the Omnibot to perform some of its more exotic functions (such as answering the door or serving morning o.j. in bed at a preselected time), but the remote control is easy to operate after a minute's tutorial. Omnibot will raise its right arm, flash its eyes, open its hand, scuttle across the floor, make sharp turns, all at the press of a button or two. It will even speak with the child's taped voice and could conceivably serve as a referee for all the games that boil down to . . . blast...
Most stunning was the news that the SEC had subpoenaed 15 employees of Shearson Lehman Brothers, including its chairman Peter Cohen. The agency is investigating the $482 million buyout of Sheller-Globe, a Toledo maker of auto parts, by a group that included Shearson, the investment arm of American Express. Sheller-Globe's shares surged just before the buyout was made public, rising from 28 3/8 on Jan. 10 to 44 on Feb. 19. That sort of sudden movement in a stock often suggests that illegal insider trading may have taken place...
...sources have told the AP that the Nicaraguan Refugee Fund was started in mid-1984 through a secret agreement between the Miner and Fraser Public Affairs Inc. and the Contras' Washington-based corporate arm, the Nicaraguan Development Council...
...federal government should be the first audience for the report. The conclusions announced last week by the working arm of the NAS--the Congressionally chartered National Research Council--are a welcome dissenting voice from a government that has failed to respond adequately to the AIDS epidemic and to an equally alarming epidemic of teen pregnancy. As an author of the AIDS study commented, there is "very little knowledge about sexual practices...
...National Research Council is the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), an independent, federally-chartered study organization which investigates technical issues for the federal government...