Word: dot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most computer images, each dot, or pixel, on the screen must be mathematically specified. One frame of 35-mm film can require more than 6 million pixels; a 60-second sequence can cost $300,000 and take months to complete. To speed up the process, Catmull and Smith built a special-purpose machine -- the Pixar -- that divides the computational task among four parallel processors: three to control the red, blue or green washed onto each pixel; one to control the pixel's transparency...
...Western powers could splash contentedly, encircled by a ring of friendly nations. The Philippines were American. Viet Nam (Indochina then) was French. Singapore was British. Indonesia belonged to the Netherlands. Then, after World War II, the slow move toward regional independence began. Today many of the small countries that dot the Pacific are fiercely nationalistic. Yet, at least for now, most of them remain closely allied with the West...
...tree people, after Fig Tree Park, a place many of them call home. Palms outstretched, the scruffy men and women beg from pedestrians on the main shopping artery. They urinate in alleys, rummage for food in supermarket dumpsters, snooze on store stoops. Their beer cans and assorted flotsam dot the lush green parks. They are Santa Barbara's homeless, perhaps 2,000 displaced people in a population of 75,000. The city's mostly retired, wealthy, conservative Establishment, although resigned to their presence, is determined to contain their numbers in the prosperous town just 29 miles from Ronald Reagan...
...question the validity of divestiture just like President Bok. Others on the council who support divestiture adopt an ACSR-like approach. It takes little to see that Bok could not be happier with the council's pace of action. Even if the council and the ACSR manage to correctly dot the "i"s of pro-divestiture resolutions year after year, this has little effect on political realities. The council's lack of effective action against Bok on divestiture seems to indicate that there is not much reason for student government to exist...
Some sniffle centers employ nurses or other medically trained personnel who know how to treat illnesses and keep them from spreading. Chicken Soup, a nonprofit center that opened in Minneapolis last October, separates children into the Sniffles Room for colds, the Popsicle Room for stomach flu and the Polka Dot Room for chicken...