Word: overlaying
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...frontier myth, in one of its aspects, denied original sin. Sin is not original but cumulative. The origins are pure. Nature is sinless, before an overlay of mounting compromises and concessions induces a weary cynicism. Even Mr. Smith's fallen idol, the worldly Senator Paine (Claude Rains), was unsullied before he breathed in the big-city corruptions of Washington...
...EXFOR's high-tech gloss, some aspects of warfare will apparently not change. Soldiers still spent hours building sand tables, miniature re-creations of the battlefield built in the dirt. EXFOR leaders still carried plenty of thumbtacks and acetate overlay maps to use as back-ups during the inevitable computer snafus. And commanders still insisted that once the "knife fight" of close-in combat began, soldiers must revert to traditional hand signals and radio commands...
Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger '64 opposes the overlay plan on grounds of fairness...
...NYNEX officials insisted that the overlay system is more convenient...
DeSisto said the overlay system is a "long-term solution to the whole issue of telephone numbers and rapid growth that we see now and that we have seen over the past five to 10 years...