Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...affiliate WCVB in Boston, news shows accounted for 39.5% of the station's revenues last year. WCVB boasts that it has the largest news staff of any U.S. station -- 350 reporters, producers, anchors and technicians -- as well as two trucks equipped with satellite uplinks to beam stories back to the station from remote locations. News departments at dozens of U.S. stations today own their own satellite-transmitting trucks, up from only a handful five years...
...modules of white steel scaffolding, structural columns set 24 ft. apart, decorative columns 48 ft. apart. He lets these various grids overlap and collide, creating quirky niches and three- dimensional geometric cat's cradles everywhere. Inside, the experience of architectural structure is nearly kinetic: as you enter, a fake beam shoots past at eye level and simply stops in midair, cleanly cut off, while a fake column stops 10 ft. short of the floor, stalactite-like. Eisenman is relentless. His precisely orchestrated riot of pattern and angles continues even with the placement of fluorescent light fixtures in the basement, even...
...speed and sweep of photojournalism's technical achievements can be appreciated by considering the life of one of its greatest pioneers, Fritz Goro. He began his career in the 1930s using flash powder to light his subjects, and just before he died in 1986, he was using a laser beam for light...
...make these measurements, a beam of atoms, usually cesium, is sent through an oscillating magnetic field, which reverses the spin on the atoms' electrons...
...presented a wider profile and was standing higher in water. Many mariners dismiss the Coast Guard's explanation. "That's a ridiculous contention because any way you turn this vessel, it's as big as a building," says Michael Chalos, a maritime attorney who represents Hazelwood. "She has a beam of 166 ft. and a height from the waterline of about 75 ft. when fully loaded. The Coast Guard is trying to cover up for the fact that they were not properly monitoring her movements...