Word: lifeless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what is software? Perhaps the easiest way to think of it is in terms of a simple analogy: hardware is to software as a television set is to the shows that appear on it. Computer programs, rather like those aired on TV, are a man-made effort to turn lifeless hardware into something one might want to spend some time with...
...cagers mounted a 21-8 surge to knot the score, but the comeback left the Crimson lifeless and Navy used the half's final four and minutes to claim a 37-26 margin at the intermission...
...uniquely modern, postindustrial blight, acid rain is as widespread as the winds that disperse it. In the northeast U.S. and in Canada and northern Europe, it is reducing lakes, rivers and ponds to eerily crystalline, lifeless bodies of water, killing off everything from indigenous fish stocks to microscopic vegetation. It is suspected of spiriting away mineral nutrients from the soil on which forests thrive. Its corrosive assault on buildings and water systems costs millions of dollars annually. It may also pose a substantial threat to human health, principally by contaminating public drinking water. Says Canada's Minister...
...regrettable maxim of the '80s is that frivolity has become the mother of invention. The latest evidence: Andy Warhol, 51, the lifeless doyen of Pop art, is being immortalized as a lifelike robot. The copy is the work of Alvaro Villa, 42, a onetime Disney animator, who claims that the computerized dummy will be barely distinguishable from the real thing. Villa will bless A2W2 with preprogrammed speech and 54 separate body movements. Upon completion, the $400,000 robot will hit the road as the star of a $1.25 million multimedia road show called Andy Warhol's Overexposed...
...place of panels honestly addressing special problems of discrimination, insensitivity, and low expectations, which many minorities face at Harvard, the Freshman Dean's Office (FDO) offered and featured one lifeless generic panel for all students. Vaguely entitled "Coping With Undergraduate Life," the panel did not address minority concerns explicitly, but featured two Black men, a white woman, and a white man, exuding happy diversity...