Word: compaction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 60 million words have been stored ona five and three-quarter inch compact disc whichlooks identical to those discs which play music,says Theodore Brunner, a professor of classics whochairs the Irvine group called the ThesarusLinguae Graecae project...
Aside from tapping into the results of theThesaurus project Harvard will do some condensingof its own. Crane is in now in the process ofnegotiating for a $500,000 contract to beginproducing compact discs which would contain afifth of all the pre 600 A.D. Greek material...
Harry Angel is investigating one such compact. Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro), a dapper gent with long fingernails that could rip your heart out, has hired him to find Johnny Favorite, who hit it big as a crooner before the war, then disappeared, body and soul, welshing on a commitment to Cyphre. The people who knew Favorite -- a junkie physician (Michael Higgins), a blues guitarist (Brownie McGhee), a society girlfriend (Charlotte Rampling) and her father (Stocker Fontelieu) -- share two annoying habits: they won't tell all they know, and they keep turning up dead, in circumstances that implicate Angel...
...latest in dorm room decor includes waterbeds, microwaves, compact disc players, and the old favorite, that black and white TV perfect for MASH reruns, has been supplanted by the VCR. The high life has gone high tech...
...moment AMC's only car is the modest, economical Alliance subcompact (base price: $6,399), but Renault will soon supply two more upscale models: the Medallion, a $10,000 compact to be introduced in March, and the Alpine, a flashy $30,000 sports car that is due in September. AMC is pinning its highest hopes, though, on a pair of models designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, the noted Italian auto stylist, which will be built at the new Canadian plant. They are the Premier, an intermediate-size sedan that will reach showrooms in October, and a sportier coupe, code-named...