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Word: beame (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under intense pressure, Rogers had the Vincennes beam seven warning messages -- three on a civilian radio frequency, four on a military one -- at the approaching aircraft; the nearby frigate Sides chipped in with five more. The pilot of the Airbus never answered -- although he had been chattering away to the control tower at Bandar Abbas throughout his brief flight. His last words: "I am at level one-two-zero ((12,000 ft.)), climbing to one-four-zero ((14,000 ft.))." The last words from the controller at Bandar Abbas, who was about to turn over control to a center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Tech Horror | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

...possibly the best Hispanic-American actor of his generation, but one of the best performers working today. His characters are fueled by a highly controlled intensity. Playing the teacher in Stand and Deliver or Lieut. Castillo in Miami Vice, he holds in his energy, radiating it through a laser-beam stare. He is every minority rebel putting his fireworks on a long fuse. In a few roles -- the strutting El Pachuco in Zoot Suit or the crazed, canine avenger in Wolfen -- Olmos cuts loose and explodes with more than his eyes. Nostrils flare, teeth flash, the body language becomes incendiary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Burning With Passion | 7/11/1988 | See Source »

...Soviet-designed "radio-frequency quadropole" device is a crucial element in the neutral-particle-beam weapon on which research is now being ( conducted at Los Alamos National Laboratory under the Strategic Defense Initiative program. The device is used to focus and accelerate atomic particles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Russia, With Profits | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Last week the jury delivered its judgment: not guilty. Jurors apparently agreed with the defense's contention that a Government witness, James Ellison, who is serving a 20-year term for racketeering, made up the conspiracy theory to win a reduced sentence. Declared Defendant Louis Ray Beam: "The Zionist occupation government has suffered a terrible blow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arkansas: Acquittal of The Haters | 4/18/1988 | See Source »

...waste time flying to places like Florence at all, if a candidate can beam himself in electronically? Richard Gephardt used satellite technology last week to appear on local newscasts in a variety of primary and caucus states. But even with the aid of such global-village campaigning, Gephardt fell victim to the disorientation of life on the fly. A pesky interviewer wondered where Gephardt was broadcasting from. Unfortunately, the candidate's initial guess (Waco, Texas) was off by 90 miles; Gephardt was in fact in Austin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hello, I Must Be Going | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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