Word: decking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tedium of endless nights under flimsy tents. Thompson thought about that after he drove through a military checkpoint manned by a young British soldier. The soldier's expression, menacing at first, gave way to a huge smile when he recognized a Phil Collins song playing on Thompson's tape deck. "There was this important, shared touch of home that's rare here," Thompson wrote. "I drove away and started crying. I thought, this kid, who should be home raising hell with his friends, could soon be in the middle of great violence...
BATTLEFIELD HISTORIANS. Military History Detachments from all the services have been sent to the gulf to collect and preserve maps and other documents that will eventually become the official history of Desert Shield for the National Archives. Also on deck: service members with artistic talent to do sketches documenting troop life in the sand...
Among the crucial features of the home deck available on the DATman is the ability to find any track with pinpoint accuracy within seconds. At $849.95, this will be Sony's priciest Walkman ever. "Like all new consumer products, the initial price is high," admits Michael Vitelli, president of Sony Personal Audio Products, who expects that the first purchasers of the DAT Walkman will be the "high-end audiophile market and music enthusiasts." But, he adds, "the prices tend to come down when the demand is great enough, and the portable capabilities of the DAT Walkman will help popularize...
Unlike portable CD players, the DAT Walkman isn't susceptible to skipping when the going gets rough. (Sony has also introduced a DAT deck for cars.) The catalog of prerecorded DAT tapes (typical price: $20) is just beginning to build up, with only about 175 titles available. But as Hirayama Toshikatsu of Panasonic's audio division points out, "The majority of users want to create their own tapes with their own selection of music." Sony spokesman Tsutomu Imai agrees. "Software was important because the CD player was a playback- only machine," he says. "It had to have prerecorded music...
...most cases, the changes that lead to breast cancer begin accumulating after birth, perhaps triggered by some set of environmental stresses, whether random cosmic rays or a dietary factor. Some women, however, start out with the genetic deck stacked against them. Like Burkhardt and her sisters, they stand a greater risk of developing breast cancer, in both breasts and at an earlier age, than other women...