Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the new system. Crimson writers enter their news articles, opinion pieces, and editorials into a video display terminal, which acts as a word-processor...
Components of the new system include nine display terminals, two hard-disk drives which store articles, and a controller to direct the flow of material. These parts are connected together through hard wire, which is hooked up to two typesetters...
...followed the revolution of 1910, and it was the assassination of ex-President Alvaro Obregón that led to the founding of the PRI as a coalition of compromise. Yet it is emblematic of Mexico City that the severed hand of General Obregón is still on display in a jar installed in a monument at the site of the restaurant where he was assassinated...
...typical convention-ending scene: thousands of balloons descending toward the packed floor, the band blaring rousing music, the delegates waving small American flags, colored spotlights panning the rostrum, washing over the smiling, happy candidates. But what happened in San Francisco last week was more than a ritual display of party unity. The cheers were genuine, and so were the tears of joy that flowed unabashedly from the eyes of many delegates. The Democrats knew they were making history: the woman up on the podium was the first ever selected for national office by a major party. As Geraldine Ferraro...
...party's collective confusion is on display from the campaign stump to Congress. Mondale preaches compassion, Hart calls for "new ideas." Old liberals like Tip O'Neill support massive jobs bills, while young reformers vote to freeze spending on all domestic programs. Southern Democrats seek to contain Communism in Central America, while Northern Democrats look at El Salvador and see Viet Nam. No center holds. "The party is floundering because it lacks a vision of where it is going," says Duke University Political Scientist James David Barber. "Where there is no vision, the parties perish...