Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks Hollywood had been bracing for the attack. In May, Variety reported that video pirates were preparing an all-out assault on the summer's hottest film, Return of the Jedi. Lucasfilm Ltd., the producer, stepped up security by policing film labs, fastening film canisters with special metal seals, and using messengers to deliver prints around the U.S. The distributor, 20th Century-Fox, sent telegrams to 836 theater managers urging them to take "every possible security" measure against piracy...
...from setting off the charges, Abersten and his associates devised an ingenious protective system. It called for installation of four rows of steel tubes in the west side of the old lava wall (lava from the eruption was moving along the wall's east side). Each of the metal tubes contained three channels. One channel was filled with dynamite and water. To keep the explosives cool, air was pumped into the second channel and water into the third...
...cheered. Rock and roll has for so long been a bastion of sexism and racism, its music divided into "white" and "Black" categories, but from the look of this crowd the industry is progressing. The dress code for the day tended toward autre but underneath the mylar and the metal were some sensitive professionals, united by the business...
...system will involve putting metal sensitizing strips in every book and magazine and installing a detection device. When a person walks past a special gate with a book that has not been desensitized at the circulation desk, the gate will lock and an alarm will sound...
Gutman's $15,000 system has had only a few false alarms, when metal objects such as keys, umbrellas and rivets from designer jeans trigger the system...