Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIMES ATLAS OF WORLD HISTORY (Hammond; $85). This classic reference book, in its third edition, chronicles the history of mankind through striking visuals and concise narratives. The new version contains more than 600 handsome maps, as well as updated sections on both antiquity and modern times. A must for history buffs...
Pittman was invited to address the group because he is representative of where the television industry currently rests and where it may be headed in the fwuture, group leader and public television producer Steve Atlas said...
...without a running game, Harvard's burden of scoring points--and with the defense surrendering 37 points per game, it has been a burden of Atlas-like proportions--falls squarely on the right arm of Perry. The senior quarterback has passed for 844 yards and seven touchdowns, but has also thrown seven interceptions and has still not developed the ability to avoid the sack...
...dozen machine-translation systems being energetically developed in Japan. With their strong thirst for information from other nations and a growing need to disseminate their documents around the world, the Japanese urgently require computers that can translate. A few machines, such as the Toshiba model and Fujitsu's Atlas system, are already in operation, helping Japanese companies like Mazda translate technical material. A powerful computer called SHALT, designed by IBM Japan, is being used extensively for in-house translations. In 1988 SHALT converted four IBM manuals from English into Japanese. This year the target is 20 to 30. Predicts Kiyotaka...
...learned and low-key, Johnson is an ideal host for the series, which first appeared on Britain's innovative Channel 4. The author of a standard encyclopedia of wine, as well as an invaluable World Atlas of Wine, Johnson is Britain's foremost wine critic; he is admired by his peers as much for his prose as for his palate...