Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Computers are also being used to create entire images from scratch. For effects like the stained-glass man in Young Sherlock Holmes, all the visual elements of the figure--size, shape and surface characteristics--are fed into a computer, along with such data as camera angles and light sources. The computer then uses this information to construct an image. Simple geometrical shapes are relatively easy to create, but the process is far more difficult for complicated figures. The stained-glass man, for instance, took four people some four months to create...
...crack in the door for reconsideration, saying that between now and the time the U.S. exceeds the limit, the U.S.S.R. could "take the constructive steps necessary to alter the current situation." But that hardly encouraged advocates of compliance. One official involved in arms control policy described Reagan as "fed up" with the arguments over adherence to the treaty. "The debate is over," said he. "He's made his decision and that's it. SALT II is finito...
Welcome to the U.S. spa, 1980s style. Only a decade ago, the spa's hallmark was pampering and passivity. Fat farms, so they were called, catered to well- fed, well-spread Mrs. Plushbottoms. No longer. Most of today's spas are one- stop fitness shops, sweat-soaked emporiums where guests are run ragged during the day, fed near starvation rations at lunch and dinner, and then hectored on proper nutrition, stress reduction and healthy habits. Coddling facials, pedicures and massages serve as soothing, but temporary respites. "If you want to expose yourself to new things in health and fitness, diet...
...will succeed Paul Volcker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board when his term expires next year? A new front runner may have emerged last week when the President nominated Manuel Johnson, 37, a Fed member for only three months, to be vice chairman of the board, replacing Preston Martin, who resigned in April. Reagan also named a new board member: Bank of America Economist H. Robert Heller...
...Born Champion in the corner of the dressing room. Who never once reached for the rouge nor deigned to muss her hair. Who kept her pretty hands folded in her tea-and-cookies lap and looked at the camera with the half-lidded eyes of a well-fed, well-bred, fine-tuned Siamese...