Word: inform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...systems that will play an integral role in Columbia's first 17 minutes of flight. One is a computer color graphic display inside the T-38 chase planes, vehicles used to photograph the lift-off and aid the shuttle's pilots in chase of emergency. The display will inform the chase pilots of the shuttle's location and transmit vector information to them in a situation that would require their intervention...
...other two displays will inform the launch-site superintendent of the radar switching system's operation and the site's conditions...
...night, HRZL called an "emergency meeting" at which members drew up their pamphlet. Rona G. Shapiro '83, a HRZL member, said yesterday. Peter A. Bronstein '82, also a HRZL member, said "the anti-Israel pamphlet presented an incomplete and distorted view of the Mid-East situation. We decided to inform people how important Israel is to American foreign policy...
...interview. In contrast to such fluff, Lawrence Spivak in the early days of NBC's Meet the Press set a standard for Sunday talk shows with politicians. He refused to court either the guest or the audience. The aim of such shows, after all, is to inform more than to entertain. In fair, informed and gentlemanly questioning, no one excels Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer of public television. The self-restraint is admirable, but such a style of questioning lacks the articulate aplomb, the audacity that is close to rudeness, favored by British interviewers who put their own country...
...commonplace. The White Hotel has its flaws. The break between Lisa the patient and Lisa the victim is too abrupt; she seems transformed less by analysis than by the demands of her author's design. But this novel is a reminder that fiction can amaze as well as inform, that an imaginative leap can sometimes take flight. Thomas' talent almost matches his worthwhile ambition: to fuse the dreams of self with the nightmare of history. -By Paul Gray...