Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will sell for at least $ 100 and perhaps for as much as $175. (For fear of completely halting sales on its higher-priced current models, Polaroid refuses to disclose the exact price of its new one.) Can the mass market possibly bear that price? Land answers extravagantly: "I think this camera can have the same impact as the telephone on the way people live." Polaroid salesmen are so sure of the SX-70's appeal that they speak of rationing it among dealers and predict that every unit produced in the first twelve months-perhaps...
...Ford Motor Co. system consists of 24-passenger vehicles that move on ground-level aluminum guideways and are controlled by a computer that not only tells them where to go next but also knows their exact locations at all times and keeps them safely separated. Theoretically, Ford says, the computer makes it possible to leave as little as two-second intervals between cars operating at 30 m.p.h. Last week the company announced that it would install its first PRT system in Dearborn, Mich. The two-mile loop will connect Ford's headquarters with another office complex, a shopping center...
...modest breakfast quickly and moved on into a paneled study for his early briefings and last-minute musing. The study always had the clean, swept look of Nixon. His pipe was cradled in a clean ashtray. The papers he needed were lined up. His two briefcases were set in exact positions beside the desk. There were two cans of Garfinckel's pipe mixture on the desk, a black telephone to the side, the inevitable Nixon Dictaphone on a corner, his reading glasses atop the papers...
...other complex electronic gear, it will give the pilot instant access to information that until now has been relayed from the ground or has required time-consuming computations in the cockpit. R-Nav will provide continuous bearings pointing toward any predetermined destination; it will supply the plane's exact position throughout the trip and immediate corrections whenever the plane veers off course. If the pilot should make a mistake in punching out his route on the keyboard of R-Nav's computer, "error" or "confirm" will be flashed by a cathode-ray tube on his instrument panel...
...Like my comrade in number II, I too, won the batting title. In 1962, to be exact. The winter after I won, the Sox traded me to Houston. I found the National League a lot harder...