Word: arrowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because beam weapons are largely unaffected by the tug of gravity, they could be aimed straighter than the proverbial arrow. In space, laser beams would have almost infinite range, as NASA showed when it bounced laser light off small mirrors left behind by the Apollo astronauts on the moon. (At lower altitudes, laser beams, like any light, are readily diffused by clouds and even fog.) Charged particles, on the other hand, would be influenced by the effects of the earth's magnetic field. But researchers are working on machines that shoot particles with no electrical charge, like simple hydrogen...
...show twice as much detail as a standard computer screen. But the key breakthrough is embodied in Lisa's software, the computer codes that make the machine much easier to operate than any other desktop computer. The operator simply takes the mouse in hand, and a little black arrow springs to life on the screen. That arrow can then be directed toward the postage stamp-size pictures lining the bottom of the screen. These are Lisa's "icons," graphic symbols representing such everyday objects as a trash can, a clipboard, file folders, a calculator, a battery-operated clock...
When you have uncles named Kenneth J. Arrow and Paul A. Samuelson, it must be pretty difficult not to go into economics. And so Lawrence H. Summers, a nephew of those two prominent contemporary economists and Nobel laureates, took the easy route...
Witnesses said the man had spent part of last night in the Bow and Arrow...
Such misgivings, if true, had never surfaced before. As the fourth of five children in his south St. Louis working-class neighborhood, White was well behaved and earnest, a clean-cut straight arrow who talked about making a career of the Army. "Why," wondered his incredulous mother, "would he give up all that for one bowl of rice a day for the rest of his life...