Word: playbacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...programs developed by the software interests were patented and thus made less readily available to computer users. To software producers, including hundreds of small computer programming companies as well as large manufacturers like AT&T that have developed their own software, the court's ruling was a disappointing playback. Says John Bennett, president of Associated Data Research of Princeton, N.J., "I could invest $1,000,000 to develop a new program, and be unable to prevent another company from selling...
...showing it to a steady stream of lookers, many of whom conclude at the first glance that they have no interest. Now Victor Klein, a real estate broker in Westport, Conn., has an idea that could eliminate most of the bother. Using an inexpensive Sony TV camera and playback unit that is simple to operate, he puts on video tape the interior and outdoor views of the houses that clients want to sell and shows the tapes to prospective buyers on his office TV set. After looking at the houses on TV, the buyer can then select for personal inspection...
...novels reveals an uncomfortable truth. The Little Sister is vintage Chandler. The plot is ingenious and preposterously complicated. Detective Philip Marlowe is full of tough backchat ("Cracking wise," he would call it). In The Long Goodbye, the paranoia and self-pity that engulfed Chandler in his last long work, Playback, are already in evidence, and the prose and characterization are flaccid. Still, this is a rich enough sampling to send any true fan back to the Cs for the other five novels...
...embarrassment seemed like a playback of the recent Clement Haynsworth episode. That time, Attorney General John Mitchell and the FBI had overlooked Haynsworth's financial dealings, which led to ethical questions and eventually Haynsworth's rejection by the Senate. This time, Mitchell & Co. had apparently been so concerned in checking the nominee's finances that they overlooked another bit of damaging information. The Administration's bungle was all the more ironic because the Senate, after the bruising Haynsworth battle, stood ready to accept virtually whomever President Nixon chose the second time. Taking full advantage of that...
Building the Andes. Vine's recorder provided almost instant playback. Surveying the seabed with sensitive magnetometers towed by an oceanographic vessel, he and other investigators found a zebra-striped pattern of magnetism, its direction repeatedly reversing as their ship moved farther away from the mid-ocean ridges. Seismologists quickly followed with proof of their own. If the sea floor was actually rising from the ridges and dropping back into the earth through the trenches, they reasoned, there should be more seismic shocks in these regions than in surrounding areas. Tests proved them right. The U.S. oceanographic vessel Glomar Challenger...