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Word: computerize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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The treaty also imposed a five-year freeze on the number of offensive nuclear missiles possessed by the two powers. The U.S. was allowed 1,054 ICBMs and 710 submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs), while the Soviets were permitted 1,618 ICBMs and 950 SLBMS. To critics of the seeming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Summit's Deadly Stakes | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

The biggest problem is the airport's vaunted Airtrans, a 13-mile computer-controlled system of tracked trams designed to transport passengers around the terminal perimeter. Because the system was apparently oversensitized, the cars grind to a dismaying halt if even a light bulb fails. The trains often skip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Airport: Impossible | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

The Witkar cooperative already has 1,500 enthusiastic members who have paid $15 each for membership and a key that both unlocks the car from a post at a recharging station and signals a computer to begin charging the account of the proper driver. Rather than paying a mileage rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Witkars of Amsterdam | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

This is one of a currently fashionable Hollywood genre known as the disaster movie (TIME, June 10). No one, it seems, is left alive on earth - dat ole debble thermonuclear disaster (shades of On the Beach and The World, the Flesh and the Devil) has struck again. Deep in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bat Bites | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

Unfortunately, another faction is trying to gnaw away impartially at all of them, without regard to race, creed, color or state of mental health. It is a herd of vampire bats, who are understandably annoyed at the way their neighborhood is being run down. They are rather more clever than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bat Bites | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

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