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Word: mirrored (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mirror, Mirror...

Author: By Neal Shultz, | Title: Softball Team Splits Twin Openers; Crimson Rallies to Win Second Game | 4/16/1982 | See Source »

Research into voice-recognition machines is particularly active in Japan. Nissan Motor Co. last October unveiled its model of a car for the handicapped that uses voice recognition to adjust the driver's seat and outside rear-view mirror, as well as to turn on the windshield wipers, lights and radio. A group of scientists at Tokyo University has developed a machine that allows an immobilized patient to change the position of his bed and order food and drink from a robot nurse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Talk from Computers | 4/5/1982 | See Source »

...Mirror-image uncertainties apply on the Soviet side. The men in the Kremlin, for all their energetic deployment and testing of weapons, are no more sure of what would happen in a nuclear war than is anyone in the U.S. Despite their willingness to rely on brute force, the Soviet leaders have shown no inclination to risk nuclear war with the U.S. By nature, they tend to assume the worst and prepare for the worst, which is one reason why they arm as much as they do. America's land-based iCBMs are supposedly vulnerable to a Soviet

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living with Mega-Death | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

This tainted, conscience-stricken lawyer has seen lowlife from all angles, including a closeup in his bathroom mirror. When not obsessively recycling his own transgressions and those who have transgressed against him, Shea locks vividly onto the burglars, prostitutes, pimps, arsonists and killers who have crossed his path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mortal Sins | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

According to the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics, it's impossible to determine both the location of a small practice and its velocity at the same time. This means that a particle and its anti-particle--its mirror image of opposite--can appear and disappear so long as they don't get too far apart before wiping each other...

Author: By Matthew L. Meyerson, | Title: The Radiance of the Mind | 3/25/1982 | See Source »

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