Word: countless
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...digital audio tape represented a terrific technological leap -- a way to make crisp, distortion-free copies of compact discs and digital broadcasts. But recording-industry artists and executives heard an entirely different tune. To them, DAT would dampen compact disc sales, because one CD could be used to make countless perfect copies. The upshot of the argument was that DAT recorders, sold in Japan and Europe for about two years, have been virtually unavailable in the U.S. Now the two sides have at last found a way to end their dispute. Result: before long Americans will be able to enjoy...
...murky images on their television screens on July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong became the first human to stand on another world. To Americans, the spirit-lifting achievement was well worth the cost and effort. The quest to reach the moon had revitalized U.S. science and technology and yielded countless benefits to industry and the military. Most amazing of all, the Eagle landed only eight years after John F. Kennedy proclaimed the moonshot a national priority...
...seem meant to embrace the unconventionality of these characters, each of whom is sexually involved with Dinah, their composer/musician neighbor, a veteran of countless love affairs with both men and women. The three live together in happy harmony, which Piercy illustrates with her description of how they traditionally spend Christmas...
Talk about your nerve-jangling summer adventures. No, not Batman or Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. For many women, it's those countless forays into the dressing room in search of a bathing suit that won't expose every bulge or sag. This summer, however, has provided some relief from the unforgiving itsy- bitsy bikini. Enter the fashionable swimsuit...
This is not to say that I did not learn countless positive things my first year in the East; it is just to say that in doing so, I realized I could not reject what had formed me since birth...