Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visionary team works toward its goal one body part at a time. Right now the staff is concentrating its efforts on perfecting a computer that will imitate human hand-eye coordination. The robot's hand has two fingers and a thumb, each with its own motor, and fingertips that contain high-resolution tactile sensors. Lab experiments test the hand's ability in tasks like lifting and grasping objects...
Economists have kept a sharp eye on consumers to see whether they have become cautious and tightfisted, but the evidence so far is hazy. Last week domestic automakers reported a brisk 10.8% increase in passenger-vehicle sales during the last ten days of October, compared with the same period last year. Those customers, however, may be people who had already intended to buy a car * and went ahead with those plans in spite of Black Monday. Many car dealers now say business is slowing by as much as 30%. Major retailers, who released October sales figures last week, mostly...
...Costa Rican wife Margarita ride out on horseback to check on the 100 workers in their employ. El Patron also enjoys climbing into his blue-and-white Cessna and taking off from one of his half-a-dozen or more airstrips to survey his fiefdom from a God's-eye view...
...other film, a minute-long cartoon, features Pope-eye, a holy man. To the tune of Popeye's theme, Pope-eye sings, "I'm Pope-eye, the holy man. I live in the Vatican..." In the short, drawn from the original 1927 Popeye series, Pope-eye baptizes Brutus and hears Olive Oyl's confession as a gay-rights leader...
Many Reunification Democrats were angered by the party's failure to choose one candidate, especially since the two Kims see almost eye-to-eye on the issues. That will make the election a four-way contest with Roh, who is campaigning as a champion of democracy but is opposed by student activists, and former Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil, a conservative long shot. Warned the Seoul Dong-A Ilbo, an influential paper: "The two must remember that a split in the opposition party means the breakup of power, resulting in self- destruction, for which both must assume political responsibility...