Word: compassion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until now, truly portable computers have been too limited or too expensive to attract a mass market. Early hand-held machines were glorified calculators with one-line screens. The first full-screen model, Grid Systems' Compass computer, cost $8,150 when it was introduced in 1982. But falling prices for both flat-panel display screens and computer chips that require little energy have made lap-size computers affordable. Last year Seattle-based Microsoft and Japan's Kyocera came up with the first winner: an eight-line screen with a full-size keyboard that could be sold with built...
...that there was no evidence of the airliner being on an intelligence mission. It said that the 007 crew could have flown unknowingly off course either by committing a 10° error in programming its inertial navigation system or by erroneously setting the Boeing 747 on a steady magnetic compass heading of 246° (an investigative series in London's Sunday Times showed how this could happen if a switch were left in the wrong position, disengaging the inertial navigation system). In either case, the crew would have been inexplicably careless in not using other means to verify...
...smashing personal success. But the Farrakhan matter was now threatening to dominate the news. "Jackson's silence stuns the heart and diminishes his noble cause," wrote Timothy Hagan, co-chairman of Mondale's campaign in Ohio, in the Washington Post. "Jackson may have lost his moral compass ... A campaign for the presidency that apparently cannot distinguish between good and evil cannot command the respect it seeks." Wrote Columnist Jimmy Breslin: "All Jackson has to do is to condemn Farrakhan and walk away from him. And that will be the last time anybody will bother to report on what...
...Simons says, "Something is happening, happening all the time." At this moment, Padgett Powell is showing us as well as any new American novelist that the territory ahead now lies in every direction of the compass...
Super Week clarified the campaign in another way: it brought into sharper focus the contrasting appeal of the two main contenders. Though Hart's early victories were concentrated in New England, he won last week at every point of the geographic compass, adding an unexpected triumph in the Alaska caucuses Thursday to his Super Tuesday scores from Massachusetts to Florida to Washington...