Word: laser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets have a vigorous ABM research program of their own, including work on technologies like laser beams. Their radar at Krasnoyarsk could very well turn out to be part of an ABM network. They are poised on the starting line - and perhaps ready to jump the gun - if the U.S. seems committed to a space race...
...Landmark) is fourth, offering pictures of Tom Selleck in fuzzy focus and crisp action. The second Ansel Adams Calendar (New York Graphic Society Books) has resonant prints of the master's favorites such as a Cape Cod barn and Yosemite Valley. They are enhanced by the latest laser-scanned printing techniques...
...recent addition to the station is the "Compact Disk Monitor" program, focusing on new high-quality laser disks...
...combat the well-organized incumbent, labor supplemented its usual campaign tools-phone banks, flyers, canvassing-with an array of high-tech methods. "They've moved into the 20th century politically," says Washington-based Labor Consultant Victor Kamber. "Now they use direct mail and laser-printed letters. They show videodisks in union halls." Two years ago, aided by computers, the AFL-CIO started to pinpoint unregistered members and sign them up. In Alabama, registration among members in one Sheet Metal Workers' local shot from 40% to more than 90%. Last month, AFL-CIO President Kirkland took to the road...
...allowing it to launch a strike with less fear of retaliation. Mondale emphasized the objection that sharing the knowledge involved in an antimissile defense and providing a "demonstration" of whatever system the U.S. develops would necessarily compromise America's clear superiority in scientific knowledge about computer systems, laser technology and other fields, which the Soviets would find extremely useful in building more threatening offensive weapons...