Word: flash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rocky's Bid? Nelson Rockefeller's aides say that he is more than just mulling over his chances for the Republican nomination should Ford falter. In the next few months Rocky will try to flash into the public eye, making many "noncampaign" speeches on subjects ranging from federalism to the future of science, as well as traveling abroad as a Bicentennial good-will ambassador. His prospects seem close to zero, but he has one asset: the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on campaign spending removed all limits on the amount of personal cash a candidate may spend as long...
Each card will be checked first against a computer printout of identification numbers. Then it will be inserted into a pre-set encoder, which is a combination keyboard and display screen that costs about $6000. Finally each card will be tested in the $900 readers, which will flash a green light if the inserted card is properly encoded...
Smoke machines flood the stage with a primordial haze. Colored lights flash, and chain-mail costumes shine in the gloom. A guitar swoops through a sonic blizzard that might have been whipped up by Led Zeppelin. Whirling at the center of this musical maelstrom is a lanky, dark-haired lout. He shouts in a girlish tenor, drops his kimono, strips to hot pants and tosses roses to adoring teenyboppers...
Hall has had more success with his flash card security system at Eliot House, and his Delta 2000 program...
...some performers, the day might have ended there. Not for Dorothy. After realizing the boos were not aimed at her, she collected herself and skated back out on the ice, head and shoulders set in grim determination. Her music started and suddenly came the smile like a flash of sunlight. Surely, evenly, she started to skate, and soon was sweeping through her routine as if gravity did not exist. The crowd was caught up in the moment, and in four minutes Dorothy turned the entire, week-long championship into her show...