Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, he held his head for a moment and pressed the yes button on his electronic voting machine. As it turned out, he had cast the 218th, and decisive, vote for Reagan's tax bill. "It tore at my conservative guts to vote with people like Tip O'Neill and Dan Rostenkowski," Hartnett said afterward. "But it was the right thing...
...companies would also be required to offer AT&T rivals equal-quality access to the local phone system. That particularly appealed to a competitor like MCI Communications Corp. Said a jubilant MCI Chairman William McGowan: "To use our alternative long-distance service now, the customer must have a push-button phone and dial 22 digits. Those requirements should disappear and make competition more real...
...Pershing II missile. For 17 hopeful seconds, the flight looked perfect. But before the Pershing had climbed two miles, it started throwing off burning fragments. The missile, 34½ ft. long and 40 in. in diameter, was already disintegrating when an Air Force officer pushed the emergency button to detonate the small explosive charges packed on board. The nose cone, which fell into the Atlantic, carried no nuclear warhead. At week's end officials were still trying to determine what caused the failure; preliminary blame was placed on a flaw in the first-stage rocket motor...
Thus, when Queen Elizabeth awoke, saw Fagan and pressed the button to an alarm bell outside her door, no one heard it. A telephone call to the palace operator for help was forwarded to the police, but none was forthcoming; six minutes later, she called again. She and the maid, who had come into the bedroom, led Fagan into a pantry in search of cigarettes. Returning with the corgis, the footman kept him there smoking until police, as a result of the second call, finally appeared...
...Automation of Field Operations and Services (AFOS) is eliminating the need for the paper weather maps and long rolls of teletype that once decorated the walls of every weather office. Using AFOS, a meteorologist summons up on a video screen the weather service's national data, presses a button that superimposes more detailed readings from nearby observation posts and presses another key that zooms in on his state or county for an up-to-date rundown of the local weather. Some weathermen remain skeptical, as one Midwestern forecaster puts it, as to "whether AFOS computers will actually improve forecasts...