Word: fuzzier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...looking at a given moment. Link's new ESPRIT (eye-slaved projected raster inset) system uses an infrared scanner mounted in the pilot's helmet to track his eye movements. Then it projects a detailed, high- resolution picture in the pilot's direct line of sight and a fuzzier, less detailed peripheral image...
Last week's upheavals only made the economic outlook fuzzier. One of the strongest stock rallies since the crash suddenly fizzled when the Government announced that the U.S. trade deficit had hit a record $17.6 billion in October, up 25% from September. The news threw the world's currency traders into a frenzy, and the dollar plummeted to its lowest levels against the Japanese yen and the West German mark since the 1940s. The turmoil could not help pushing urgent questions into the minds of every reader of the financial pages: What is going on with the U.S. economy...
Business may pick up as the holiday draws nearer and memories of Black Monday grow fuzzier. But consumer confidence is getting no boost right now from the stock market. The Dow Jones industrial average took several dizzying downward steps last week, including a 76.93-point drop on Monday that ranked as the eighth largest one-day fall ever. For the week, it tumbled 143.74 points to close at 1766.74. The Dow is now just 28 points above its Oct. 19 nadir, and broader indexes of U.S. stocks are performing even worse. Shares on the American Exchange and over-the-counter...
...noted congressional hesitancy in funding the militarization of space and wonder whether CSOC and the U.S. Space Command are just pie in the sky. Notes Mayor Robert Isaac: "It's hard to see into a crystal ball more than a couple of years out. The farther you look, the fuzzier it gets." But for most of Colorado Springs, the future, fuzzy or otherwise...
...rating of American metropolises, they write, "is like a snapshot of a moving target." No picture is fuzzier than that of No. 1 Pittsburgh. It received no outstanding marks in eight categories--its best was seventh in education--and it accumulated no low ones. "Pittsburgh is like the Steelers' front line," observes Boyer. "Not incredibly strong in any one area, but consistently good overall...