Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...European and American luxury hotels from the Helmsley Palace in New York City to the Hilton International in Dusseldorf, West Germany. Instead of being given a normal key that can be easily copied, guests receive a thin paper card containing a metal foil strip with a precise pattern of holes punched in it by a computer. When someone inserts the card into a small box on his room door, a battery-powered electric motor opens the latch. When a customer checks out of the hotel or reports his card missing, the computer changes his room combination. The electronic watchdog...
While the air controllers' strike drags on like an endless wait in a holding pattern at a busy airport, some people are trying their own hand at guiding planes to a landing. No cause for alarm. They are playing one of two video games that have become popular since the start of the strike. The games: Air Traffic Controller ($11.95) and Flight Path...
Hospitals are also beginning to redesign nursing's career pattern, which traditionally led to administrative jobs...
...pattern of dying has become almost routine. After 21 days of no food, strikers are moved, past cheering cellmates, to continue their fast in the nearby prison hospital, a modern, one-story building where they are locked into individual rooms. Here they regain the status of prisoners who conform to regulations, and they are allowed to have visitors for one half-hour each day. The trays of food are always there. Radios are in each room and the strikers listen for special songs played for them by name by a sympathetic local station. But the men are even more interested...
...Salomon Bros.-Phibro agreement continues the pattern of recent megadollar mergers on Wall Street that began with Bache's acquisition by Prudential Insurance and the American Express takeover of Shearson Loeb Rhoades. The combined Salomon Bros.-Phibro firm, though, will not be going after new customers for credit cards or insurance. It will be making corporate deals on an unprecedented worldwide scale...