Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experience is becoming available to the general public. Following the lead of Disneyland, which used four full-scale flight simulators in 1987 to create its wildly popular Star Tours ride, the biggest amusement parks are adapting state-of-the-art technology to do with computers what used to be done with Ferris wheels and roller coasters. Says David Fink, director of research and development for Disney's Imagineering division: "It's the wave of the future for theme parks...
...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...
...that, in Libra, is precisely what Don DeLillo has done. In a note at the end, he admits that some may find a novel on this subject "one more gloom in a chronicle of unknowing." But, he continues, "because this book makes no claim to literal truth, because it is only itself, apart and complete, readers may find refuge here -- a way of thinking about the assassination without being constrained by half-facts or overwhelmed by possibilities, by the tide of speculation that widens with the years." Unfortunately, this argument wants things both ways; a book can hardly be "only...
There have been many people in the country who have not accepted until now the proposition that blacks have a legitimate role within the councils of government. I think what Jesse has done in his extraordinary campaign is to let moderate and even many conservative Democrats see that the issues that are important to Jesse's narrowly defined constituency also apply to them. To me, this may be not the final but at least the penultimate peak in the acceptance of blacks within the American political system . . . Jackson's speech last night was the best ever given at a convention...
...Governor you have declined all invitations to visit Hanscom Air Force Base, the premier military facility in Massachusetts and the home of the Air Force's Electronic Systems Division. Four ESD commanders have invited you. Accepting such invitations is the normal political practice, and other Massachusetts officials have regularly done so. Your unwillingness to visit Hanscom has led many of us to wonder whether you are viscerally antimilitary...