Word: beams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could WHRB's tendency to show up on answering machines, toasters and any other home appliances one could imagine actually be an attempt to develop techniques to subliminally beam commands through our dental fillings...
Shortly after midnight on Dec. 18, just five days after the shuttle Endeavour returned from the daring mission to repair the Hubble telescope, scientists secretly put the refurbished instrument to its first test. They ordered the Hubble to point toward a bright star and beam its image to Earth. Anxiously, they crowded around a computer screen at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, as they waited for the picture to appear. The Endeavour astronauts had installed the telescope's corrective lenses and other equipment perfectly. But it wasn't certain that the devices would actually work...
...tunnels are lit by hanging lights spaced out by ten feet. These lights cast a bright beam directly under them, but only a dim picture beyond until the next light...
...national interests and its moral role abroad, to say nothing of its idea of itself at home, is disheveled. It is therefore natural that in trying to find its way through problems like, say, Bosnia and Somalia, the Administration can see no farther than the range of its low-beam headlights...
...ghost" images by varying the displayed image on the screen. While they were useful five or six years ago, they are no longer needed on today's computers. Modern monitors are coated with a layer of specially processed phosphorus that resists burning, even when hit by the same electron beam repeatedly for a long period of time...