Word: limitless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called cellular radio communication. Cellular systems, in which a city is divided into honeycomb-like cells, each with its own transmitter, get much more use out of a single radio frequency than conventional mobile phones. Cellular technology is such an improvement over existing techniques that it allows an almost limitless expansion in the number of mobile phones in use. It also increases their range and usefulness. Licenses have already been awarded in some of the largest U.S. cities...
...able, but the company does not hold any hand or make any guarantees-it just provides a chance to live and work independently. Employees work for a 42 percent commission. Although working on a commission basis can be risky, it also allows for more freedom and potential earnings are limitless. For instance, within a group of students from Yale, Brown, Trinity, and Middlebury colleges, net earnings ranged from profits of $10,000 to losses...
...example, plunges into "Ah, My Joyous Heart Is Flying" with a touching show of grief left over from the previous recitation. The exception to the awkwardness is Hughes, who as Cherubino portrays first a lively teenage boy, then a boy masquerading as a girl, with limitless aplomb and stage presence. Hughes' voice also provides some of the program's best moments, soaring effortlessly in an opening aria and a piquant love song to the Countess...
...growing outcry. "People are all mad as the dickens that defendants are freed on technicalities," says Utah Supreme Court Chief Justice Dallin Oaks. The rule, wrote Oaks in 1970 when he was a University of Chicago law professor, "imposes excessive costs on the criminal-justice system." It takes "limitless patience with irrationality" to tolerate the fact that "where there have been two wrongs, the defendant's and the officer's, both will go free." Another problem, says U.S. Appeals Court Judge Malcolm Wilkey of the District of Columbia Circuit, is that "every defense lawyer feels obliged to make...
...oldtimers. To the camp fashion consultant, Corporal Klinger. To Father Mulcahey, the perfect priest in the Korean War. To Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, and to the memory of Frank "No Lips" Burns, who together perfected the art of irritation. And finally to Benjamin Franklin Pierce--Hawkeye--whose limitless storehouse of wit kept American punsters in full supply...