Word: lasered
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...that my cubicle was uncivilized. It contained a brand new Dell computer complete with flat screen monitor, optical mouse, and laser printer (I was to find that every computer has its own laser printer as well as a centralized color laser printer for the division). I sit in a well-padded chair in the middle of a complete wraparound desk with more office supplies than I know what to do with. And I am a clerk, the lowest possible position at the Bank...
...hundreds of tight little wads of initials they use in the defense game. In this case it is the INS, or inertial navigation system, whose alignment takes three to ten minutes in planes that fly with conventional navigational rigs, but in the F-20, owing to Honeywell's ring laser gyro, the INS is aligned in 22 seconds flat...
...official, William Perry, who was in charge of military research during the Carter Administration, is concerned about what will happen if the Soviets decide that Reagan is irrevocably committed to SDI. Perry is concerned that if the U.S. uses the space shuttle to carry out a demonstration of a laser weapon in the next year, "we may have pushed ourselves beyond a point of no return with the Soviets so that they'll start acting as though we have such a system. Instead of concentrating on diplomacy, they'll pull out the stops in their military programs to counter...
Hawkins had relied on one of the new technologies that try for the personal touch in politics. The state of the art is the laser printer, which mimics handwriting. Some 100 House members already use laser printers, and the Senate may soon install them as standard office equipment. WILDLIFE Stopping a Skin Trade...
...pirates invented their own programs to circumvent that scheme, the manufacturers turned to more elaborate ones. They recorded tracks backward, recorded data between tracks, left spaces between bits of data, used spiral (rather than circular) tracks, even burned tiny, precisely placed laser holes in the original that foiled attempts to duplicate...