Word: chuting
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SORTING MAIL. The U.S. Postal Service uses voice-recognition systems in 30 big postal centers to sort bundles that cannot be processed by its automatic equipment. A human reads the ZIP codes off the labels, and the system directs the packages to the proper chute. The Postal Service figures it is cheaper to buy a computer to do the job than to train people to memorize which ZIP codes correspond to which locale...
WIRTH: The massive scramble to get the list of who bounced checks, that corridor full of reporters. It was ya-hoo! It was like we were feeding all these people into a chute, and at the end of the chute was the list, and everybody was dashing to get it. Reporters were lusting after it. They know more about how the House bank works than how campaign-finance reform works...
...seventh year, her tenure case comes up for review. The ladder to tenure is fully in view. Instead, the professor is sent down the Harvard chute, and out the door...
...Coates' Invisible Site: A Virtual Sho, a mixed-media phantasmagoria now onstage in San Francisco, tells a story like TRON's or The Lawnmower Man's: of travelers and hackers in a virtual-reality video game. But from the first moment, with the image of a huge (computerized) concrete chute belching (the image of) computer-generated smoke, the effects are the real story. The audience, wearing 3-D glasses, watches a live actor getting poked by a giant computer-generated glove, or scenery changing with the tapping of a computer key. "3-D is an old technique," explains Coates...
...evidence indicated that both men perished, though the passage of time, the dense jungle and the cold, rainy weather made it + impossible for the investigation team that went to the site in 1990 to locate the graves. As for the parachute, it could have been the drag chute used to slow F-4s after landing. It also could have been an effort by a comrade-in- arms to do a favor for the families of the downed crew. As long as a serviceman is listed as MIA, his family continues to receive his pay and even benefits from periodic promotions...