Word: maps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longer health. Another says that violent assaults may spring from explosive family tensions. "Overage criminals feel they are no longer bound to a system that has no place for them," concludes Criminologist Gary Feinberg of Biscayne College in Miami. "They are adrift, and society has provided them with neither map nor itinerary nor friendly shore...
...abreast of events back home, the paper has a two-page spread of news items from each of the 50 states, and a similar state-by-state summary of college, school and amateur sports. The clean makeup features sharply reproduced color photos, charts and a vivid, detailed national weather map...
...family car, he just types in the make of his auto and his address. The machine will then provide the name and location of the nearest garage servicing that model. To speak to a friend in America, the customer presses another button and the screen shows a map of the world marked with the costs and dialing procedures for the different countries. The telephone computer can find a name even if it is not being spelled correctly. Given the phonetic spelling of a name, the computer provides the phone numbers and addresses of all the names that sound the same...
hill, as the wayfarer battles a curve and then a second, sharper right turn, two other obligatory props of a New England town blur past: the village store and the post office. Bryant Pond would be a dot on the map, located by reference to nearby towns with such names as Norway, Paris and Mexico, if it were not for one curious fact: this little way station happens to be the home of the last crank-telephone system in the U.S. Here is how it works. Somewhere in the modest stillness of Bryant Pond, someone rotates a crank, jangling...
...Legislative Strategy Group (L.S.G.), the brain trust that has coalesced around Chief of Staff James Baker, 54, has become the Tolkien ring of power in the White House. The group does not appear on any of the detailed charts drawn during the transition by Counsellor Edwin Meese, 50, to map the flow of White House authority. Rather, it was conceived shortly after the Inauguration by Baker's deputy, Richard Darman, 39, to coordinate the passage of Reagan's economic program. "It was important that everyone in the Administration knew there was a clearing house," explains Darman. Other core...