Word: interruption
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dinosaurs and G.I. Joes. But it is not only the myths that endure: often, traces of childhood still lurk beneath the tough hide of adults. This holds true, we found last week, even when those grownups work for TIME. Editors, writers and reporter-researchers often found it necessary to interrupt their tasks to poke through the mountain of dolls, blocks and robots that was amassed for the story in an empty office on our 26th floor...
...before swamping the administration with complaints that it never pays any attention to students, critics should remember this: your adviser may never come knocking on the door to find out what you are up to, but at least you can be sure that University officials won't interrupt your parties...
...Commuters will set burglar alarms, start air conditioners and program their VCRs--all through the digital keypads of their mobile phones. When appliances break down, homeowners will plug them into diagnosis outlets, dial the manufacturers and be told in a flash precisely what has gone wrong. Television sets will interrupt broadcasts to announce that clothes dryers have completed their cycles. Viewers, with the press of a key, will tell those dryers to run the clothes through one more time...
Scientists hope AZT will interrupt this process by preventing the HTLV-III virus from latching onto the genetic material and multiplying, while they hope alpha interferon will keep the viruses from leaving the white blood cell and attacking others. Hirsch is hopeful about the two drugs, both of which have already been shown effective in the laboratory. But there are some indicators that AZT may hold more promise, he and others...
...elite lecture from stages, their voices magnified electronically, to crowds of up to 1000. The rest of us are not permitted to interrupt, comment, or disturb their performances...