Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dominating one wall of the control room was an enormous display screen showing a map of the world. Superimposed on the map, a line traced the orbit of the Mir space station, with rings along it representing ground stations. Mir's position was marked by a blue-green light, which was moving slowly across the circle centered on Moscow. The flyby would take only eight minutes, after which the window of communication would close. The audio feed came through with startling clarity, as if Cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko were standing in the next room. "The work here is very interesting...
...Directories -- accounted for more than 90% of the industry's estimated $7.4 billion in advertising revenues last year, about 200 other ( publishers now produce their own brands of Yellow Pages. Many companies buy listings in more than one telephone book to make sure that potential customers see their display ads. As a result, the Yellow Pages is one of the fastest growing advertising media...
...calmer waters, the Big Three are a bit contrite. "It won't happen again," says Donaldson, who called the display "idiotic." Yet he is the leader of the shouters. Wallace too says he is "very concerned" -- but he feels compelled to match Donaldson. Plante apologized to the public, but won't drop out of the cacophony. None of the three was criticized by network owners or editors. All blame Reagan for not having enough news conferences, interviews and appearances to fill their needs. When the President does show up, the result is what one network official calls a "feeding frenzy...
...work of 17th century Spain' s doctrinaire mystic Francisco de Zurbaran goes on magnificent display at the Metropolitan...
...recital's final in-house work was 'Six Preludes', by James Romeo, Dunster's house music tutor. Romeo wrote these preludes as simpler pieces for his piano students at Harvard, but in their simplicity they display the composer's talent for the pleasingly lyrical. The first of the preludes uses the sustain pedal to allow harp-like tones to reverberate within the piano, creating a sort of water-color of sound reminiscent of Debussy...