Word: beame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the National Cable Television Association, eight religious programmers, from National Jewish Television to the Eternal Word Network, rent time on satellite transponders, and three beam out round-the-clock inspiration. CBN, however, is by far the largest notch in the electronic Bible Belt, and its 387-acre headquarters in Virginia Beach, Va., clearly reflects its status. The $35 million complex boasts a $22 million state-of-the-art studio, a university that offers graduate courses in communications and education, and a headquarters shaped like a cross. When an announcer quotes U.N. figures on overpopulation and the screen...
...appears that our present policy is so broad that it is like a wide search light, covering a lot of territory all the time. We don't need such a wide beam to help needy groups. If we could narrow the beam, we could still be helpful and save energy for other purposes...
...rear of Brezhnev's motorcade. West German sources dubbed it a "hot line on wheels," and said it was in direct contact with the communications center at Schloss Gymnich. In the garden of the estate, the Soviets set up a dish-shaped microwave transmitter. Its purpose: to beam messages to Moscow via the Soviet satellite "Horizon" that overflies Western Europe...
...everything in the books becomes an automatic hit. Chicago Mail Order Merchant Joseph Sugarman found few buyers for his $ 1,500 laser-beam mousetrap. But for products that do not sell out, there is always Grand Finale, a discount catalogue that specializes in marketing goods left over from other catalogues...
...spectra can also be created by directing a light beam or, say, X or gamma rays at an object. As the radiant energy strikes the atoms, their electrons hop from one orbit (or, in the language of quantum mechanics, one energy level) to another, absorbing or emitting light at specific frequencies. Such spectra yielded invaluable data about atomic and molecular structure...