Word: patch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coalition for a Balanced Budget, for instance, raised roughly $80,000 for pro-G.O.P. radio spots and $250,000 for a "patch-through" phone campaign. Just before crucial House votes, people were called at home and asked whether they agreed with the G.O.P. position. Those who did could be connected directly to the office of their representative in Congress to urge a vote for the bill...
...main attractions of this year's Square display is the newly restrung "nebula banner," meant to resemble "galactic patch M-51," that now hangs over Mass. Ave. near "Out-of-Town News...
...have had musculature capable of strong contractions. It probably had a heart, a well-defined head with an eye for sensing light and, last but not least, a gastrointestinal tract with an opening at each end. What kind of genetic machinery, Erwin wondered, did nature need in order to patch together such a creature...
...restraining order. In response to the court challenge, c't's editor, Christian Persson, and one of its writers, Ingo Storm, engaged the services of a software engineer, and together they went through the program line by line to try to plumb its inner workings. Their findings: the one patch of SoftRAM 95 code remotely resembling a compression algorithm never gets used by the program. Moreover, the two subprograms actually called on to manage memory usage appear to be copies of programs that Microsoft hands out free. Both modules increase a computer's capacity using "virtual memory," a memory-expansion...
...gauging the expansion rate, and thus the age, of the universe. Their illogical preliminary answer: the cosmos is between 8 billion and 12 billion years old--or about 2 billion years younger than the oldest known stars. While Freedman and others refine their measurements, cosmologists are scrambling to patch up their theories. To save the idea of the Big Bang, the postulated explosive event that created the universe, they are even talking of reviving the idea of the cosmological constant--a sort of universal antigravity force that Einstein proposed and then discarded as inelegant...