Word: myriad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...completely new electronic switching system that works 1,000 times faster than current dial telephones. The heart of the system, housed in several neat rows of grey cabinets in Electronic Central office at Morris, is 12,000 tiny transistors that control or amplify electrical current pulsing through a myriad of miniaturized devices, including 105,000 diodes, 23,000 neon-filled tubes that glow orange as they connect one telephone with another in a few millionths of a second. Electronic "eyes and ears," called scanners, spring into action the instant a phone is taken off the hook, activating a photographic memory...
...spectators liked the show well enough to refrain from breaking out with the bicycle chains they had brought along in case of dissension. For the U.N. officers in the reviewing stand, it was hard to escape the conclusion that Mobutu came closer than any of the Congo's myriad "leaders" to exercising effective power...
...myriad U.S. political pulse takers, no one was more confounded by last week's elections than that presumably savvy gent, the local party boss. Between widespread (and carefully calculated) ticket splitting and outright reversals of voting form, the 1960 election hit many a state political machine like an earthquake, shattering cherished preconceptions and not a few careers...
...thesis Kennedy exhibited a touch of the pedant, replete with myriad footnotes and obscure statistics. There were also a few flagrant rhetorical and grammatical errors: "Even Churchill's speeches... was not the vigorous demand that it was come...
...many, the current business slowdown is really an adjustment to the consumer's growing predilection for the myriad new services his money can buy. "This causes dislocations within the economy," explains Sears, Roebuck Chairman Charles H. Kellstadt, "but given the level of gross national product and disposable income, it is no cause for alarm. It simply reflects the fact that our rising standard of living has made us a predominantly consumer-oriented economy. It is not a case of not growing, but of growing in a new direction." In the past five years the real output of services...