Word: fax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They responded and said the trip would be postponed for a day," Stager said. "The fax calmed her down...
...SETI's offices in Mountain View, California, the first signs of extraterrestrial life arrived last week not by radio but by fax. When they got the news from NASA, says astronomer Frank Drake, the organization's president, workers abandoned their stations and gathered around a TV set to watch the press conference "hooting, hollering and cheering." And for good reason. If the evidence is validated, explains Drake, who launched the first seti-like program in 1960, "it confirms what we've always believed--that life arises wherever the conditions are right." And because the sun is just one star...
...there as well. Yeltsin's badly split Russian advisers quickly set up separate fiefdoms on the eighth, ninth and 10th floors. Dyachenko worked almost exclusively on the 11th in Room 1119, directly across the hall from the Americans in 1120. She and they shared two secretaries, a translator, and fax, copying and computer-printing machines...
...painful review of what had gone wrong. Everyone had been aware of the danger since a smaller bomb killed seven people, including five Americans, at a U.S.-run training center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia's capital, last November. Warnings of more outrages had been coming by phone and fax for months, and security measures at military facilities had been stepped up. Troubling long-range strategic questions also demand answers. Is the rule of the royal House of Saud in more danger than the West suspected? Does the presence of about 5,000 U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia bolster or undercut...
Oddly enough, a day or two after I heard that the Internet was comparable to an abused Maytag, I was told about another impending technological disaster. "It never rains but it pours," my mother used to say--and she said that before the invention of even the plain-paper fax. A woman I know who works in data processing told me that even if many expensive adjustments are made beforehand, the year 2000 is likely to wreak havoc with the records of the financial industry...