Word: basics
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Cara A. Dunne '92, a blind student, said the University fails to provide adequate braille signs in buildings and elevators. "It's very basic, but somebody has got to think of it and plan it," she said...
...Italian telecommunications equipment maker, said it has chosen AT&T as its partner in a five-year, $27 billion government-subsidized mega-project to rebuild the country's cranky telephone system virtually from scratch. As one of the main contractors on the project, Italtel will supply most of the basic equipment, while AT&T will provide the know-how, software and supercomputers that will make Italian phone lines hum efficiently. The job may be worth several billion dollars to Ma Bell...
...Texas operation because waterfowl numbers have been plummeting in the face of droughts, habitat loss and illegal hunting and because a preliminary investigation uncovered widespread flouting of the wildlife laws. Leach and other investigators simply masqueraded as duck hunters. Of the 42 hunting clubs visited, an astonishing 41 violated basic waterfowl-protection laws. In the course of the operation, agents regularly documented egregious violations. At one posh club, for instance, an undercover agent was asked by unsuspecting guides to videotape a hunt during which 13 hunters slaughtered 204 birds (139 over the limit for that group). When a guide yelled...
...business will never be as peaceful as it once was. Surviving thrifts will have to compete with powerful rivals and satisfy a far more sophisticated customer than they did in the past. But if the industry shakes off its con artists and recaptures its basic prudence, those thrifts that remain might still do George Bailey proud...
...still-video cameras operate on the same basic principle. Light passes through a lens and strikes a flat electronic wafer called a charge-coupled device, which converts the image into electronic signals that are stored on a floppy disk in the same manner that a camcorder records the individual frames of a video movie. Once an image has been captured, it can be displayed on a TV, printed on paper or transmitted over telephone lines anywhere in the world. But whoever receives the images must have one of the cameras or other special equipment to view the pictures...