Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FED UP WITH reporters' pestering queries about the Philippines, President Reagan retorted with a casual expression of discontent. He swore...
...home, the plush revolving lounge on the top of the BobCo Building." What kind of place was Bob's Bob House? The narrator recalls the hospitality of his host: "My God, I drank the place dry that night, and then I had a good solid piece of American grain-fed beef and got in my car and ran over a claims adjuster and ended up in Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. That's the kind...
ENIAC was the technological wonder of its day. Programming the machine could take as long as two days as "coders" armed with detailed instructions fanned out among the panels, setting dials and plugging in patch cords in an arrangement that resembled an old-fashioned telephone switchboard. Data were fed into ENIAC in the form of IBM punch cards; a million cards were required for the monster's first assignment, a top-secret numerical simulation for the still untested hydrogen bomb. Every time a tube burned out, which happened twice a day at the start, a technician had to rummage among...
...said. Bryan students talked about heavy pressure for good grades and social success. Said Chris Longacre, 17: "You feel like if you make one mistake, your future is gone." Bryan's principal, John McQuinn, pointed to prosuicide rock lyrics, complaining that "we have a 'life is cheap' philosophy fed to young people." Others expressed the wistful hope that somewhere in the seemingly pointless deaths lay a lesson for the community. Said Assistant School Superintendent Rene Hlavac: "The three young people left us a message and we need to search and find...
...Angeles performances were at the John Wooden Center on the UCLA campus), a centrally located small orchestra of 24 is surrounded by six soloists scattered around the room, performing at various times on amplified xylophone, vibraphone, cimbalom, harp, celesta, electric organ, two pianos and percussion. The sounds are fed into a bank of computer-synthesizers, which alter and transform them according to a predetermined program and project them out again through loudspeakers hung over and around the audience. The drama lies in the confrontation between the acoustic and the amplified instruments. Ghostly trills float above rumbling repeated figures, brasses punch...