Word: blips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Well, this is better. It's called Space War. You have a satellite, and I have a satellite. Now you're in orbit". he says, pointing at the screen, on which two objects are rotating about a dot. "You can change your orbit by firing your engines, like this." Blips emerge from the back of one satellite and it starts to describe an ellipse. "Then you have torpedoes." He turns his spaceship, fires an arrow-shaped blip and the other ship disappears. Space War has an infinity of variations. "There is always the final escape--you can send yourself into...
...heightened industrial activity, the jobless rate fell half a point to 7.8% of the labor force in January. Some 800,000 new workers were added to payrolls, pushing total employment to a near-record 86,194,000. February figures to be released this week may show a slight blip upward in the unemployment rate, partly because of the difficulty of calculating seasonal adjustments, but the trend is clearly down. Indeed, the January figure was already so close to the 7.7% that the Administration had predicted unemployment would average for the whole year as to indicate that that forecast...
...concedes, "it caught all technicians, including me, completely by surprise." At the beginning of January the expectation of the pros on Wall Street was that the traditional January buying flurry, essentially a technical correction following the tax-loss sell-offs at year's end, would be only a blip on an otherwise flat or slightly downward curve. Instead, an inexplicable renewal of optimism caused a wave of heavy buying, and the running of the bulls into the market began. As prices started to rise, the big institutions, such as banks' trust departments, pension funds, insurance companies and mutual...
That remarkably good record can be attributed largely to improvement in air-traffic control. Until the mid-1960s, air-traffic controllers had to rely on old-fashioned radar to scan the skies and keep track of moving "blips" that represented individual aircraft. Now the controllers' vision has been increased enormously by improved radar and new electronic gadgetry. Every aircraft that flies above 18,000 ft. and in designated control areas carries a radar transponder that answers ground radar by flashing an identifying signal. The ground radar is assisted by banks of computers that display on the radar screen right...
...Hopeful Blip. One would like to entertain idealistic dreams about the sudden consumer resistance to business as usual in television. Occasionally, indeed, a hopeful blip appears on the screen. Last week a worthy special, The Incredible Machine, running on PBS, whomped its commercial competitors in some major markets, gaining a record-breaking 36% audience share in New York. It was, ironically, part of a documentary series that has been booted off all three commercial networks for lack of audience appeal. Jennie, a PBS import about Winston Churchill's mother, has done better in some significant urban areas than...