Word: connections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...focus of a crowded race. It may be artificial, but it's manna to the journalist who can't remember if he last talked to Flynnigan of Dikearney. Finnegan was the cagey. Irish pol. Flynn, the liberal "goo-goo". King, the leftist. Incidents become symbolic stories that don't connect," not proven patterns but isolated signals between the lines. Thus Finnegan took his desk home from his School Board office: read. he's a plunderer. Larry DiCara let an illegal loan slip in from an aide: He's no manager. Flynn gave out different brochures to Blacks and whites...
...into the outside world with his home machine for more than just a peek at stock quotes and airline schedules or an occasional trespass on the turf of the military-industrial complex. Increasingly, as more and more home terminals are hooked into the telephone system, the lines that connect computers are being used for personal networking, carrying the raw materials of human intercourse: gossip, elephant jokes, pesto recipes and even the murmurings of long-distance seductions...
...system that combines computer, modem, printer and disc drives. Once the machinery is installed and the modem plugged in, there are hundreds of computer networks accessible by phone, from bulletin boards geared to specific machines to on-line dating services that anyone can join. The most popular pay-for-connect-time utilities, like The Source (40,000 subscribers) and Compu Serve (70,000), advertise in newspapers and computer magazines. These commercial operations offer their subscribers news, horoscopes, games and travel tips. The phone numbers of smaller systems pass by electronic word of mouth. All it takes to get started...
...bridge would connect the museum's new addition to the older section...
...heart that Barney Clark received thus represented more than a quarter of a century of research. Like Kolff's original device, it is powered by air, compressed by an external electric pump. Two 6-ft.-long air tubes, which emerge from beneath the rib cage, connect the heart to the pump and to emergency tanks of compressed air and other equipment, all of which are stored on a cart. Total weight of the awkward external system...