Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black townships has a fresh look. Some feature do-it-yourself extensions; others are brand new, built on cleared lots or over old foundations. This home-ownership drive has produced profitable spin-offs for black businesses, ranging from contractors and suppliers of building materials to dealers in instant lawns and burglar-alarm systems. Moses Mahlalela, 41, a design engineer with offices in one of the new Soweto shopping centers, can hardly keep up with demand. "I'm so busy I haven't had time to build a place of my own," he says, pointing to the dozen or so blueprints...
...December of 1986, she walked onto the Harvard track team and was an instant success. She already holds school records in three sprints: the 55, 200, and 400-meter dashes...
...These celebrated works are distinguished by a direct and bone-dry style that balances Thesiger's luxuriantly romantic relish for tribal peoples and desolate places. The Life of My Choice says goodbye to all that and good riddance to the 20th century and its airships, land vehicles and instant communication, which destroyed the silence and threaten a world Thesiger saw just in time...
...that religion is a powerful national force, not only in exotic places but also in their own familiar country. Americans need to become more attuned to their country's desires before concluding that today's moral crisis is easily handled with secular expertise. Pat Robertson's practiced intimacy, his instant if shallow friendliness, may frighten some. But it reassures others exactly because he is not theatrical or compelling (as, say, an earlier televangelist, Fulton Sheen, was). That breathy and winking chuckle we heard, debate after debate, did not constitute a last laugh by any means. But we are going...
...Instant feedback can be provided by a new campaign device called the Electronic Audio Response meter, or EAR. A computer-age version of the old applause meter, the EAR was developed by market-research agencies to gauge the impact of a new product or strategy, but it can be applied just as well to political campaigns. Members of a prescreened focus group are issued hand- operated dials on which to register their approval or disapproval, on a scale of 1 to 7, of whatever they are viewing on a TV screen. A computer combines the results and displays them instantaneously...