Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...messy manuscript, which had at least been touched by human hand. What's the going rate in the rare-book trade for Odyssey II-a 5-in. diskette (single side, soft sector, single density, reinforced hole ...)? Until I know, I won't press the erase button...
Rose Mary Woods, 64, Nixon's longtime personal secretary. Her contortions at federal court hearings on White House tapes, as she tried to demonstrate how she could have mistakenly erased 18½ minutes by simultaneously pressing recorder button and foot pedal while answering telephone, led to widespread suspicion that she was covering up for her boss. Helped Nixon at San Clemente on his post-Watergate books, then retired in 1976 on Government pension of at least $27,000 a year. Lives in Watergate apartments...
...course, there are still some differences between Graham's opinions on the nuclear weapons race and what more socially oriented Christians have to say. Graham said at the Kennedy School of Government that "man stands before Armageddon, ready to blow himself up," and God will intervene before the button is pushed. Others have said that it is important to become involved in the freeze movement now, before Graham's scenario occurs...
...data that tell the pilot when to fire. Since the latest version of the Sidewinder missile carried by the Sea Harrier has what the experts call a wide-angle "boresight," the pilot only has to aim in the general direction of his target-within 40 degrees-and press a button. The Sidewinder missile does the rest, homing in on the target with an infra-red sensor that detects the enemy's hot engine or exhaust nozzle...
...beautiful rainbow, ribboning the night sky: a sign that the little boy had found the key to his dreams. And just before the rainbow disappeared-a rainbow no one else saw that sweet summer night-Steven aimed the camera heavenward and pressed a button. The little boy from suburbia had begun to tell his story...