Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the Blake Babies' "quirky pop" music to the Bullet LaVolta's "melodic punk metal" and the Lemonheads' "melodic punk," the night was "a rousing success," said Clay B. Tarver '88, who plays guitar for Bullet LaVolta...
...components that can be bought in any electronics store for about $300. Maybe so, counters Frank Mason, president of a Fairfield, Conn., company that makes countermeasure devices for the Government, but "you would need almost laboratory equipment" to get a good reproduction. Protecting computers against such snooping is expensive. Metal shields can be placed around ! computers to contain the electronic pulses, but one expert estimates that installing and inspecting the shielding would cost more than $200,000 for each machine...
EVEN WITH THIS many categories, some of the musicians still got shortchanged. Hardcore and heavy metal acts were lumped together in a single category. Local musicians competed against their national counterparts. Jazz, rock, pop, blues, and country instrumentalists vied for the same awards...
OBLIVIOUS TO the world, I walked into the store with my walkman headphones on. I passed through some sort of metal detector I had been accustomed to seeing only in airports. Unlike the airport checkpoints, this barrier did not have a customs official with a gun standing by, nor was there a sign that said "inappropriate comments about bombs and explosives may result in arrest." (By the way, what is an appropriate comment about bombs or explosives...
Quotas. The Supreme Court last year upheld a rigid court-imposed numerical quota for the employment of blacks and Hispanics in a case where a sheet-metal union's resistance to integration had been marked by "foot-dragging egregious noncompliance." Quota plans, however, remain legally questionable in most cases...