Word: pinpoints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fared poorly compared with tape. The bright hope is what vid whizzes call interactive discs. These can instruct the viewer in a variety of pursuits or, wired through a home computer, can let him seek specific help. On one prototype, for example, a viewer with a troublesome bicycle can pinpoint the malfunctioning part of a two-wheeler, and the disc will show him how to repair it. Unfortunately, RCA would have to redesign its existing machines to enable them to play these interactive discs. If interactives are indeed the salvation of disc machines, RCA's are incompatible with...
...months has to stake out its position on a budget for fiscal 1983. Indeed, Reagan already has on his immediate schedule nine lengthy meetings with White House staffers and Cabinet officers to sort out the conflicting requests of the various departments. The President is faced with the need to pinpoint some $40 billion in new spending cuts for fiscal 1983, and then get a restive Congress to agree. So the din of budget clashes is destined to grow even louder and prove all but interminable...
...compensate, Cuccia does not pass from the pocket but rather throws on the run, moving left, moving right, backward, forward, underhand, sidearm and even (twice this year) left-handed. Nobody questions his arm ("I've seen him pinpoint guys 55 yards downfield in practice," says running back Scott McCabe), but his effectiveness throwing long is another matter...
Sister Mary Ignatius (Elizabeth Franz) has taught for many years at Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow school. She believes that to spare the rod is to spoil the child, perhaps eternally. Her rod is the catechism. Her prize pupil (Mark Stefan) can make pinpoint distinctions between venial and mortal sins. The sister pops a cookie into his mouth after each impeccable response, and Stefan plays the role with the precision of an ordained parrot...
...maybe it won't. Wiesel cautions that scientists may never fully understand the brain. "We may not be able to pinpoint all the solutions so clearly. At this stage we are only defining the variables," he says, adding, "The most exciting work is ahead...