Word: informant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...television special was bad enough, but this new mansion goes too far Has Bob Dylan [Sept. 20], who for years wanted only to inform society of its wrongs, become as money hungry as some of those rock bands...
When the sensors inform the electronic brain that the engine has reached operating temperature (180° F.), that the auto is in third gear, has reached 45 m.p.h., and is not accelerating, the little box sends out a signal activating a key-and-slot device that locks the exhaust and intake valves shut and cuts off fuel to the affected cylinders. The pistons in these cylinders continue to move up and down, and the spark plugs fire, but no fuel is burned. The cylinders are not supplied with the fuel mixture as long as the driver maintains cruising speed...
That because the first system had failed, for over a year Fiscal Services staff members "repeatedly [had] to inform our clients that we had no way of knowing whether a specific invoice had been paid or whether a specific account was current...
That because the first system had failed, for over a year Fiscal Services staff members "repeatedly [had] to inform our clients that we had no way of knowing whether a specific invoice had been paid or whether a specific account was current...
...skilled anchor man does not palaver, as time-filling radio broadcasters used to, but rarely does he say anything memorable either. His talent is to roll out endless spools of language that inform but do not rile. It is a strange, self-limiting role for garrulous, confident men. Opinionated candor must be held in check; the impartiality that a writer achieves painfully at his typewriter has to emerge instantly, toothpaste-clean, from the anchor man or commentator...