Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...orchestrated display of outrage was becoming increasingly familiar. As dusk fell over Chile's capital of Santiago, tens of thousands of people began beating pots and pans in a rhythmic cacophony. In the densely populated slum of Herminda La Victoria, gangs of unemployed youths defied a strict curfew, barricading the streets with burning tires and chanting "Down with the dictatorship!" Rumbling through the capital's nearly deserted streets, army troops and police tried to intimidate the demonstrators by firing submachine guns into the air and throwing tear-gas grenades at them. The toll of the 5½-hour...
Since it was introduced into the American workplace in the 1960s, the video display terminal (VDT) has become an indispensable tool for 10 million clerical workers, typesetters, writers, editors and computer programmers. But as the number of people who regularly use VDTs has increased, so have complaints that long-term exposure to the machines can cause a variety of afflictions, including muscle fatigue, eyestrain, cataracts and miscarriages. Two years ago, a panel of vision experts and psychologists assembled by the National Research Council began a scientific investigation of the effects of VDTs on eyesight...
...people who come to the games in Toronto are reserved to the point of courteousness," says Peter Bavasi, operator of the expansion franchise for the first five years. Gary Carter says the Expos fans "have more loyalty to a great display of baseball skill than to the home team alone. When the other side makes a good play they don't sit on their hands like a lot of American fans." Often they clap their hands to the tune of The Happy Wanderer. "When you're on a roll and going good," says Steve Rogers, Montreal...
...other guy selling mousetraps has five times as many salesmen." The Univac episode helped give rise to the belief that IBM's real strength is in selling while its technical prowess often lags. Says Kenneth Leavitt, president of CGX Corp., a Massachusetts-based maker of high-performance display terminals: "IBM tends to be a step behind in technology but very good at marketing...
...those quiet moments, 2,000 moviegoers turn into so many pussycats, purring contentedly, basking in the delight that is both provided and experienced by a 22-year-old black man in what is only his second feature film. In the 1,368 theaters where Trading Places is on display, you can hear an audience smile...