Word: dots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...services would cut me off for nonpayment -- because I wasn't off-line enough to open the bills. My work and financial records moved to a corner of the living room as I reassigned home-office space; after all, a brand-new 386- model PC, color monitor, fast dot-matrix printer and 2400 bps modem deserved their own desk and room. Visits to local computer supermarkets became more frequent than trips to neighborhood bookstores. Relatives and friends complained about busy signals and demanded that I get home voice-mail service...
...fascinating possibilities of fully automated passenger vehicles. The lean-back comfort of a train meets the door-to-door convenience of a car. Automobile travelers would be able to key in their destination, flip open a magazine and leave the actual driving to ALVINN. Last October the DOT committed $160 million to an Automated Highway System research consortium, which includes the C.M.U. team. A European coalition is working on similar technology called Prometheus; Japanese automakers are also tinkering with prototypes...
...they're probably a red dot special atK-mart or in the sale bin at CVS, anotherpost-season candy that didn't come close toselling out. Each year, confectioners produce 10billion Valentine's Day conversation hearts:enough to cross the continent five times with suchsweet nothings as LUV YA, BE TRUE, KISS ME and MYMAN. The taste is nauseatingly sweet in a stalesort of way, and the parallels with colored chalkabound. Nonetheless, the candy heart is one ofthose holiday staples that persists. After all,the idea is kind of cute, and they fit socomfortably inside the envelope of a Donald...
...fully attentive, he checks his location, pinpointed by a glowing dot moving along a map displayed on a dashboard screen, then exits the freeway and reads instructions on an adjoining screen. Finally, as he nears his destination, he is guided further by a computer voice that intones, "Turn left on Cherry Street...
Transportation Secretary Federico Pena got out the budget shears today and proposed deep cuts in his federal department that will save $6.4 billion over five years. Pena proposed collapsing 10 DOT divisions into three, reducing staff 12 percent by 1999 and privatizing several key functions. Under the plan, most of the department would be consolidated into an Intermodal Transportation Administration, which would assume the functions of highway, railway and other transit offices. Air traffic control would handled by a quasi-independent body outside the Department. Legal and accounting duplication would be eliminated. Pena will send a detailed plan by March...