Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...done with computers. By making mathematical transformations on a digital landscape, today's simulators can display on a screen exactly what a pilot would see through a windshield. In military models, much of the information comes from the Defense Mapping Agency's library of the world's hills, valleys, rivers and towns. The processing power required to sort out that mass of data is staggering. Says Ronald Hendricks, technical director at Singer's Link Flight Simulation Division, a descendant of Edwin Link's original company: "When you look out the window, you see 18 billion bits of information. To make...
...fireworks in your weekend plans? Not to worry--catch the baroque orchestra, Banchetto Musicale's Royal Fireworks Concert at Marina Bay in North Quincy at 8 p.m. The outdoor program's concert includes Handel's "Water Music" and "Royal Fireworks Music", featuring a new fire-works display choreographed to music. Tickets are $20 or $25 for table seats. Rain date: July 31. Telephone...
...nothing new" and repeated its own demand for a North-South conference on reunification. Seoul, which has condemned such a gathering as "unrealistic" and "impractical," said it will nonetheless continue to seek increased trade and diplomatic ties with the North and help Pyongyang join international organizations. In a further display of goodwill, South Korea halted daily propaganda broadcasts to the North at least until after the Olympics...
...there, and then we saw the water exhibit and said 'let's go.' Of course I've been running around after the kids the whole time in here, but it is alot of fun," says Miller, while two of her co-counselors marvelled over the five foot bubble display...
...aborted $10,000 breakfast club, the Senate Finance Committee chairman sets off special-interest alarms in some quarters. His claim to being the only Democrat to have beaten George Bush in Texas is a little long in the tooth (it happened in 1970), and his campaign style on display last week was stolid and uninspiring...