Word: pencilings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...edge -- those pinpoint strikes on Iraqi targets -- actually represents some fairly straightforward bombing. The key technology is a simple laser detector on the nose of a glide bomb that is electronically linked to adjustable fins in the bomb's tail. All the pilot has to do is point a pencil-thin laser beam at his target and push a button. A stabilizing computer keeps the beam locked in place, freeing the pilot to pitch and roll as necessary to evade enemy fire while the bomb rides along the beam's reflection, flying into the target like a moth...
...goal is to create a tool as simple as a pencil or a postcard but with the power of a computer behind it. If the product succeeds, the company could open up a vast new market for those millions of factory workers, sales representatives, inventory clerks, construction supervisors, police officers, claims adjusters and other mobile workers who might benefit from computerization but who either have never learned to type or just do not have the time to sit at a keyboard. Says Richard Shaffer, editor of the Technologic Computer Letter: "This is one of the most exciting opportunities that...
...airline ad. They know that liquor ads do not keep easy company with stories on religious fundamentalists. When a conflict arises, the ad is usually moved. But sometimes things slip through. Both Quiggle and Strianse are still talking about the week they allowed an advertisement for pen-and-pencil sets to appear on the same page as an interview with Mother Teresa under the headline "A Pencil in the Hand...
...Pencil pushing, however, is not even the biggest source of anxiety. Unlike most colleges, the bulk of medical schools require on-campus interviews with students whom they are seriously considering...
...guarantee that they will stop with two tests? SAT-45 can't be that far off in the future. High school students will spend their entire junior year of high school with a number two pencil in their hands...