Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...differential gears, or they computed them digitally, using the on-off action of slow-moving electromagnetic telephone switches. ENIAC, by contrast, was the first digital computer both to store and to process information with vacuum tubes; as a result, it was able to perform calculations 1,000 times as fast as its electromechanical predecessors. "I was convinced that you could produce great speeds electronically if you put your mind to it," says Eckert. "ENIAC proved that this...
...VENGEFUL "GAGS" TO PLAY ON THEM WHEN HE DISCOVERS how he has been used. But the riotous imaginations of Writers Robert T. Megginson and Gregory Fleeman don't stop there. They overplot to the point of incomprehensibility, and Director Robert Mandel's staging is often implausible. F/X is a fast-food movie: easy to grab, fun to consume, but loaded with empty calories and soon expelled from memory...
...five months, Johnny's Thrift Shop was the most hassle-free store in Birmingham, paying fast prices for anything brought there and handed to the clerk behind the counter. There were the two young men, for example, who carted in a $600 color TV and a $300 VCR, plunked them down and accepted Johnny's $175 check for both. And then there was the fellow who parked a brand-new $15,000 Oldsmobile outside and gladly took $500 for it. "The car business is much more profitable than the stereo business," the seller earnestly explained. "How many...
...official, Robert M. Gates, tried to salvage his agency's tenuous connections with academia after the Harvard controversy received national attention. But Gates' much-publicized policy speech at the Kennedy School brushed over the sensitive issue of academic freedom, allowing disclosure of funding in some limited cases but holding fast to the CIA's right of review and ultimate control of scholars' work...
Just at that moment, as I was preparing to open the car door, the Federal Government appeared in a cloud of smoke. "Not so fast, young voter." It said. "I'm onto your game. And in the name of justice and lower insurance rates. I'm going to be forced to stop you, by preventing you from buying alcohol legally...