Word: compaction
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...videotape recorder (VTR) is the television industry's first really new product for the home consumer since color sets. The compact device can record color or black-and-white television programs, play video cassettes, accept cassettes of prerecorded commercial shows and, with use of an optional camera, produce home movies, all playable on the user's own TV set. The VTR's primary function, taping TV shows off the air, has opened a new kind of Pandora's box. In 1976 two of the biggest movie production companies filed suit, charging Sony Corp., the first firm...
...projecting an image of clarity and certainty, and at the same time not offending those Catholics who disagree sharply with him. He still finds the American form of church dissent something of a puzzle. Explained a Vatican source: "In the Pope's native Poland, the church is a compact, tightly knit unit, holding together against the Marxist enemy. It is hard for him to understand those Americans who disagree publicly and loudly with church teaching, yet consider themselves good Catholics...
...NAJARIAN--The compact back who last week set new B.U. records for most career yards(1904), most yards in a single game (244), and most career rushing attempts (405) comes off a 244-yd. effort on 41 carries against dismal Northeastern...
...thought he became physically sick. I was aghast when, in the plane, I wanted to change shirts before arriving in Peking. In desperation I borrowed some white shirts from John Holdridge?a six-foot-two trim former West Pointer whose build did not exactly coincide with my rather more compact physique. Photos of my party in shirtsleeves show me smiling enigmatically, in garments that left me with the appearance of having no neck...
...John is a heady player, in-touch with Restic's Multiflex and adept at option and sprint-out plays. He's a quick, compact quarterback with a questionable arm--one that fits a running game more suitably than a passing attack...