Word: manually
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sold for just $8 in the highly competitive markets of West Germany and Australia. To make a profit at the lower price, Allen-Bradley had to get costs down. By using automated equipment, the company could produce contactors for 60% less than it could by relying on a manual assembly line. "Labor costs," says Whitney "obviously had to be a nonissue...
...into the system, enabling them to check a doctor's record in a matter of minutes and crack down on would-be border skippers. The data will also be made available to the military medical system and hospitals. Says Galusha: "We've gone from the turkey quill and laborious manual searches to state of the art in the past two years. The net is tightening...
...books, crayons and a television set. Some youngsters wept; a few vomited into the classroom sink. After a 2 1/2-hour standoff, White left to go to the bathroom, handing his wife, who was standing in the center of the room, two bottles of gasoline wired to a battery and manual trigger. When her hand apparently slipped on the trigger, she set off the crude bomb. The blast killed her instantly. It seared young faces with flash burns and ignited clothes. Reeling teachers shoved children through the blown-out windows onto the grass outside, where they lay screaming and shivering with...
...vents allowed the bubbles to escape required manual operation. But after the accident no one could enter the building to open them because of the extreme heat. So the NRC task force afterward decided that remote control vents should be installed in all reactors...
...implied, and sometimes stated, message of such attitudes is that "no" often means "yes." Andrea Parrot, professor of human service studies at Cornell and author of the leading manual on the subject, says that too many people are not aware that "any sexual intercourse without mutual desire is rape...