Word: kr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computers, the stenotypist's technique remains the same. Pressing one or more letters on a 22-button keyboard, the stenotypist writes phonetically, omitting letters that are not sounded, or uses one of 3,000 standard abbreviations to represent a familiar word or phrase. For example, W stands for "with," KR for "consider." These abbreviations are printed on narrow strips of self-folding paper. In CAT systems, the keystrokes are also recorded electronically on a tape or magnetic disk, then fed into a computer that expands the stenographic shorthand into English and prints out a transcript that needs only minor editing...
...bill, sponsored by scn. Michael LoPresti Kr. (D-Roston), prohibits local laws which restrict apartment owners right to occupy or well their properly...
...Consumers now can mail or telephone orders for a deluxe domestic robot ($17,500) complete with electronic pet ($650) from Neiman-Marcus, a porcelain unicorn that plays The Impossible Dream ($24.95) from World of Music Boxes or a life-size female torso made out of milk chocolate ($60) from KrÖn Chocolatier...
...enormous forces created by its fiery plunge through the atmosphere. It would have exploded before impact, scattering particles over a wide region. The explosion would have produced a fireball and intense shock waves that battered everything on the ground below. Where did the meteorite originate? Slovak Astronomer Lubar Krésak has suggested that it was a chunk of Comet Encke, a periodic visitor to the earth's vicinity that is also the probable source of an annual meteor shower in late June-the time of the Tunguska event...