Word: flash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less important than this kind of drill, which some critics compare with the old-fashioned flash cards, is the use of computers to teach children about computers. They like to learn programming, and they are good at it, often better than their teachers, even in the early grades. They treat it as play, a secret skill, unknown among many of their parents. They delight in cracking corporate security and filching financial secrets, inventing new games and playing them on military networks, inserting obscene jokes into other people's programs. In soberer versions that sort of skill will become a necessity...
...picked up at the mid-Manhattan branch of the New York City Public Library. Librarian Donald Alexis spotted the suspect when the bespectacled Lewis, wearing blue jeans, walked by the librarian's fourth-floor reference desk. "I just glanced up at him," Alexis said, "and in a flash, something seemed familiar." Alexis then rechecked the man's features against those on an FBI poster tacked up in the staff room. When federal agents arrived, the fugitive was at a table quietly copying names and addresses of newspapers from a reference book. The agents surrounded Lewis, who was unarmed...
...cameras and video games, Belgian waffle makers, foot massagers, pots, pans, cutlery and apparel of all kinds. So far at least, the drumfire of discounting is having the desired impact of making at least some stores busy. But much of what is happening so far this season is flash without great substance, chiefly because of the sales. Says Michael Evans, a private economist in Washington: "Consumers are buying more, but they're spending less...
...stray steel chip, perhaps a burr from a screw, in an exhaust vent of the suit's oxygen supply system. If the fragment had been in the pure oxygen area and caused a spark (by hitting a wall, for example), it might have touched off a catastrophic flash fire, killing Lenoir and possibly ripping a fatal hole in Columbia's sides as well. In fact, a suit did catch fire in a test at Houston two years ago; fortunately no one was wearing it. It was so incinerated that not enough was left to pin down the cause...
...command. Anyone who remembers Reiss's Ivy Oration in '81 will recognize the brand of rapid-fire humor that makes this spoof spunky, and Jean's specialty of "over-kill" humor fits perfectly into a film that can show Mission Control deciding that the crew are "goners," and flash to a shot of the cockpit, where the Grim Reaper stands behind the pilot...