Word: compacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moniker -- that encompasses a variety of systems for bringing information, music, voice, animation, photos and video images together on a screen in people's living rooms and workplaces. Multimedia represents the coalescence of three key communications technologies: television, personal computers and laser storage systems like the videodisc and the compact disc. These technologies are on a collision course, say multimedia enthusiasts, and when they merge, life as we know it will never be the same...
...would argue that the moral foundations of our country and their religious expressions are flawed because of the sins of racial bigotry and sexual discrimination. Further, I would argue that our social compact is flawed because of our inability and unwillingness to take these flaws seriously. Nothing in recent history has better served to show the tragic interrelationship of these flaws than the Thomas case...
...store sells tapes and compact discs of pop, soul, rock, folk, international, jazz, blues and clas sical music...
...baseball player heard on Meatloaf's song Paradise by the Dashboard Light? (Phil Rizzuto.) In what city is the opera Carmen set? (Seville, Spain.) These are typical questions in a new board game for the sound-bite generation, called Play It by Ear. The game is equipped with a compact disc containing 381 different sounds in 12 categories, including speeches, famous sports moments and TV trivia. The package offers nearly 1,800 questions for 24 separate games, and it's a hit. Rykodisc, which makes the $45 game, has sold 50,000 copies in its first month on the shelves...
...might be able to read the directions to build bookshelves in multiple languages, but I certainly couldn't put them together better than any other person with two hands. A good portion of the students here can't hook up their own computers. Even more have compact disk players that baffle them. And if you can find a student who put together his or her own futon, get them...