Word: coaxial
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Working in the wee hours, small bands of radical activists and students had used wire snippers to sever coaxial and optical cables for signal, communication and computer systems at 24 locations in Tokyo, Osaka and five other cities. Using canisters of kerosene attached to crude timing devices, they also blew up or burned down cable connections. Thus, when railway officials tried to start the first trains of the day at 5 a.m., they found to their horror that neither signal lights nor rail switches were operating on 22 commuter lines. As a result, the system in Tokyo and Osaka remained...
Another unimpressive display was just as arbitrary and unbefitting. This one involved a fragment of an old coaxial cable in a vitrine. The exhibition text argued that Evans believed the object to be a portion of the cable belonging to the phone used by Marcel Duchamp during his stay in the United States...
...give away the point of attack. Then the tanks, amphibious tractors and humvees head west toward the outskirts of Diwaniyah. The chum is now in the water, and the Iraqis rise immediately to take it, pinging the Marine armor with small-arms fire. A tank crewman answers, firing his coaxial machine gun into an enemy bunker. Over the radio comes a play-by-play: "Yeah baby," says a voice. "He just ate coax for breakfast," says another. But the sharks were already on hand, and in numbers, when the Marines arrived, and they seemed to fill up the palm-studded...
...create an HD version of it. That means a significant investment in digital cameras and cables--a tough sell to a business with billions of dollars sunk in the old way of making TV. Then either your cable company has to carry the big HD version over its coaxial cables (taking up precious bandwidth that could otherwise carry more channels), or the local NBC affiliate has to broadcast it over...
...those dangerously addictive devices known as televisions, chances are you get your fix from a hole in the ground. Of the 106 million TV households in America, 63% are cable subscribers. But that percentage is going in the same direction as the coaxial cable: down. A new study by J.D. Power & Associates identifies a clear trend: every year cable loses another 2% of total viewers, and satellite picks up the slack. In 1996 only 5 million viewers owned a dish; today the number is closer to 17 million...