Word: inched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kramer's twelve-inch-wide platters have another important advantage over video tape: they can freeze an image on the screen. A viewer can read a book on his TV set and turn pages at his own speed; a teacher can show a recorded lecture to her art class and let the image of Michelangelo's David linger on the screen while she digresses on Renaissance political thought; a golfer can stop Jack Nicklaus' swing just at the point where his own club usually goes awry. Using disks instead of tape does have a disadvantage; a video...
...NOAA experimenters know that they are playing with fire. Two weeks ago, an unanticipated lightning bolt burned an inch-wide hole in the wing of their plane. But Project Director Heinz Kasemir and his fellow scientists think that the risks are worth taking. Lightning suppression could be used to help prevent fatalities and forest fires, and might even benefit the space program. NASA could eventually employ suppression techniques at storm-prone Cape Kennedy, where lightning bolts have occasionally hit giant Saturn rockets on their pads and once, during a launch, knocked out the electrical system of Apollo 12, threatening...
...instance, is working on a portable chemical laser (which produces a beam from the energy released in the reaction of two or more chemicals) that could be carried into battle by a unit of only three men. Aimed like a rifle, it would silently burn a fatal, quarter-inch-wide hole in the body of an enemy soldier up to five miles away. "Once you've got him in your sights," says a TRW engineer, "you've got him. There are no misses...
...succeeding poll shows the G.O.P. candidate pulling farther ahead of George McGovern (see story, page 15). The news is so good that the President's supporters scarcely dare believe it-or so they say. "We're really running scared," says a White House aide, "for about one inch. People are running around the White House telling themselves, 'Yeah, yeah, we're scared.' " Not so scared, apparently, as to fail to count their chickens in advance. "We aren't conceding anything," says Dole, "We aren't saying we'll win all 50 states...
...questions, which appear in a 12-inch television screen in the center of the computer, are designed to determine a subject's feelings about himself and other people...