Word: panning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Essentially, panning and scanning requires a technician to isolate a portion of the wide-screen action, recopy it onto tape or film and discard whatever else around it does not fit. In the process, 20% to 60% of the original image can be lost. The pan-and-scan technician moves optically over the film, creating tracking shots the director never intended; he can also delete, by necessity or miscalculation, vital pieces of visual information...
...Security Council and therefore should have done more to stop the aggression." Conversations with Gaddafi and other Libyan officials always trail off into vagueness about what exactly the Soviets should have done, the same sort of vagueness and unreality that shroud Gaddafi's talk about a pan-Arab army...
...built Grand Hotel, where dignitaries were quartered, only 16 of Africa's heads of state were present. That was less than half the necessary O.A.U. quorum of 34 leaders. Among the decisions that the O.A.U. could not make: the scheduled passing on of the coveted chairmanship of the Pan-African body to Gaddafi, who craves the status and respect ability that the title confers...
...experience of the Hinckley jurors may have been welcome to some and unwelcome to others. But it was not unique. Citizens chosen to serve in major trials these days may be well advised to pack some Pan-Cake makeup along with their toothbrushes, for much of the global village is likely to be looking in. A Massachusetts lawyer tells the story of some women who were upset when an extended court session forced them to miss hairdresser appointments they had scheduled because of the TV coverage. Jurors judging Convict Author Jack Henry Abbott received hate calls after announcing their verdict...
Among the airlines, Pan American World Airways reduced its loss from $112 million to $56.2 million, and Chairman C. Edward Acker predicted that the company would make a profit during the current quarter. Declining passenger traffic and cut-rate fares pushed income down for other carriers. American Airlines saw earnings tumble 98% to $466,000; Trans World Corp. posted a 27% decline to $41.6 million; UAL, Inc., parent company of United Airlines, suffered a 36% slump to $5.5 million; and Delta saw profits shrink 52% to $23 million...