Word: ecco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...limit on the spread of biometrics has been the high price -- typically $3,000 or more for a security-access system. But as with many other electronic gadgets, the cost could come down rapidly. Ecco Industries of Danvers, Mass., hopes to market a $300 voice-recognition security device for consumers next year. Within a few years, biometric security systems may be incorporated into automated-teller machines and employed at checkout counters to verify that a person is not using a stolen credit card. "In time," predicts Joseph Freeman, head of a security market-research and consulting firm in Newtown, Conn...
...Milosz the poet, however, who has been suddenly thrust before the world. Works such as Selected Poems (Seabury Press, New York) and Bells in Winter (Ecco Press, New York) have long attracted glowing attention from other writers and poets, especially those who share Milosz's state of spiritual and political exile. Says fellow Pole Jerzy Kosinski: "He remains very Slavic in his idiom and main obsession: What is the essence of life? Why are we here? It is not how to live, but why, for the sake of what?" Emigré Poet Joseph Brodsky adds: "What this poet preaches...