Word: detected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gammill believes he has broken new ground. "Until now no one has been able to detect or transcribe emotion from a stock-performance chart," he says. Gammill is now setting the market performance of Exxon and Coca-Cola to music. Investors looking for a new stock may soon ask, "How does that stock sound...
Nonetheless, this single-minded force is waging its campaign for social retrenchment at what may be a propitious time. Fundamentalists detect a widespread feeling in America of spiritual bafflement and dissatisfaction. Many commentators outside the movement agree. Sociologist Rodney Stark of the University of Washington, no Fundamentalist himself, thinks that the religious right makes quite accurate assessments. Antireligion and amorality have in fact been spreading in the public schools, he asserts, and "a majority of Americans are scandalized" by the apparent flouting of traditional values on television and in the press. Similarly, Michael Novak, the neoconservative Roman Catholic, says that...
...warhead is hardly larger than a coffee can. But jammed inside the 12-in. by 13-in. cylinder are 64 tiny rockets, eight high-powered telescopes and a targeting device so sensitive that it can detect the warmth of a distant star...
...satellite to pass over their fixed missile launch pads, which could take up to twelve hours. The U.S. missile can reach its target within ten minutes of launch. The Soviet rocket takes as long as three hours. Furthermore, the Soviets use a radar homing device that is easier to detect, and thus counter, than the heat sensor employed by the U.S. The Soviets are trying to develop an infrared homing system but their prototype has failed in six tests...
...barring Chinese and other Asians. But the Urban Institute's Muller believes there is now more tolerance and less racial animosity than at any other time in U.S. history. Says he: "There is no public attitude remotely like the virulent attitude of the 1840s and 1920s. I don't detect any strong backlash out there...