Word: audio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...integrated circuit nearly malfunctioned over the review of my worth as an electronic toy. My play value is for children and comes not from using my arms and legs "like a true robot," but from the science-fiction fantasy inspired by my electronic audio and visual effects...
Those wily old Romans started it all. They developed the form of sale that became the auction, and used it to sell everything from statues to tapestries to palaces and, finally, the relics of their republic. They knew well that audio (literally, an increasing) was where the action was. They should be around today...
...cable TV; tape duplication or "tape-swapping, organized or informal." All these issues will eventually have to be resolved, either by other courts or Congress. A 1976 copyright law passed by Congress was partly aimed at the problems raised by such technological innovations as photocopiers and audio tape recorders, but left as many questions open as it answered. Dorothy Schrader, general counsel for the U.S. Copyright Office, points out: "If off-air taping of an entire movie is possible, it has implications for copying a book one copy at a time...
...business than its larger rival. U.P.I. has invested more than $21 million over the past decade to automate its news-gathering operations and has opened a $10 million computer center in Dallas (corporate headquarters will remain in New York City, a few blocks from A.P.'s). U.P.I. began audio reporting for radio in 1957, and now supplies news reports to roughly 1,000 stations, 300 more than A.P. In early 1977, the company established a commodity wire report with Knight-Ridder, and also transmits news and regional reports, sports, even physics lessons to home-computer owners...
...Some people can handle reading or just audio-lingual," Dinklage says. "When we had translation classes only a couple dozen students a year couldn't handle them, and they were the hard-core dyslexics. With the audiolingual classes, we encounter many more students having difficulty and processing audio inputs." Dinklage says that when audiolingual courses gave many students more difficulty, several administrators suggested that they take Latin or Greek. "But the Classics Department revolted against having forced conscripts in their classes," he adds...