Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Business School, a campus-wide computer system of IBM PCs has been in place for more than a year. The system provides for basic communication needs including everything from computerized billboards to class schedules. And the school's curriculum, which focuses primarily on case study situations, relies on the machines to compute high-level business decisions that officials say would be immpossible without computers...
...addition, some view the current MCAT as "superficial," testing only the surface of the basic science learned in premedical courses. Critics also point to what they believe is its disproportionate influence. Furthermore, many feel that the MCAT simply cannot measure or predict a student's clinical capabilities--in other words, it says nothing about how good a doctor a student might become...
...people will show you three or four different Mercedes. One will be white, one will be black, one will be silver. You will not get a red one or a brown one. Michael knows how things are going to look on camera. A lot of it is very basic stuff that has never been applied to TV. For example, Michael carried a water truck around with him on his movie Thief, watering the streets down. So I decided to water the streets at night in my episode of Miami Vice. You get a different look, a beautiful reflection of moonlight...
...struggled to find a way out of its financial problems, the government was relieved by the failure of the miners' strike. The union's basic problem was one of strategy: it had signed a new agreement with Anglo American Corp. of South Africa, the country's largest mine operator, and had called a strike in the mines where union strength was weak, ranging between one-half of 1% and 12% of the total work force. It thus failed to get the support of large numbers of nonunion miners. After three days of confusion and clashes, the union gave...
...Dealers report brisk sales from Beverly Hills to Beverly, Mass. About 70% of them, though, are still found in rural communities, which often have bad television reception. In Appalachia, where for years hill folk put up towering antennas on top of houses or neighboring ridges, families are now buying basic $1,000 earth stations...