Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presents a dilemma: the three major candidates do not serve the presidency, and most votes for one will be votes cast against the others. Surely, the voters are reminded, there are gradations of evil. Surely, many reason, Carter is worth supporting, if only to keep Reagan away from the button and the Supreme Court. The argument is sound in some ways; Carter is perceptibly less unnerving than Reagan. But the difference between the men is not large enough to warrant support of Carter. If the incumbent represented the spirit of the Democratic Party, if he stood even in name...
...condenser microphone built into the case. An interesting feature is that these units generally have a tone control, not found in less expensive portables. The cassette tape section is operated by switches, either plano keys or pushbuttons. The cassette section includes fast forward, play, rewind, record and a button that is a combined stop and cassette eject...
...given a fair trial" by the House, and accused the members of "lynching" him. Protesting that "I know now what it feels like to sit on death row," Myers warned the members that their votes to expel him would have the same effect as "hitting the button if I were strapped into an electric chair." Few legislators were moved. The vote to expel Myers...
...poor performance of the American economy. Carter, Reagan and Anderson have all offered vote-catching solutions for the problems of inflation, unemployment, energy shortages and declining productivity. Will the results match the rhetoric? "Not a chance," says M.I.T. Economist Lester C. Thurow. "Everybody is looking for a magic button, and there...
...third novel with the warning, "If this typewriter can't do it, then fuck it, it can't be done." Like a keypunch operator waiting for a computer to spew out solutions, Robbins must have sat hopefully in front of his Remington SL3 expecting that, if he hit a button here and there, the sophisticated machine would spit back a novel of answers. Still Life With Woodpecker does not bear...