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...cardiopulmonary resuscitation disc, developed by the American Heart Association to instruct trainees in saving cardiac arrest victims, is so interactive that it practically cries "Ouch!" The disc is linked to a mannequin equipped with 14 sensors, and it tells the trainee exactly where to push, pound, pinch or pummel. Instructing the trainee how to compress the victim's chest, the videodisc might say, "Find the notch on the sternum," or perhaps, "A little more gently this time." At the course's conclusion, the system gives a complete exam, grades it, and can certify the student in cardiopulmonary resuscitation...
Said Gates Brown, the Tiger pinch-hitter-turned-batting coach: "If the team plays decent, interesting ball, the people will have something to take their minds off their troubles...
...know that very few people in the West and in the Soviet Union have a good handle on this, but there is some sense that perhaps the Soviet Union is entering a period of such extraordinary economic difficulty that they're really beginning to feel the pinch....It may be the case that there is not an infinite capacity for expansion in the Soviet system and that in a period of transition in leadership they they may find arms control, legitimate constraints, limitations, even reductions of nuclear weapons, to their economic and political advantage...
Harvard's only threat against Barber came in the ninth Chris Schindler pinch-hitting for Gaylord Lyman battled the Ram pitcher to a ful count and then drew a walk only the second free pass yielded by the Barber...
...addition, the more than 9 million wage earners covered by contracts containing cost of living adjustment clauses will also feel a transitional pinch. COLAS automatically adjust earnings to help offset inflation, and many people have become accustomed to counting on those illusionary increases in their incomes...