Word: presets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pledged so often to balance the non-Social Security budget and stay within preset spending caps that something had to be done. With defense and highway spending on the rise, the brunt of the cuts fell on health, education, and social service programs, but billions of dollars still remained to be accounted...
...virtually any speakers, including the ones on your home stereo. The device, somewhat smaller than a VCR, pumps out 30 watts per channel, has "virtual" Dolby Digital (which simulates five-speaker "surround sound") and has a digital signal processor that allows one-button access to a variety of preset audio mixes. CD players have been offering that last feature for a while--you can simulate the echoey acoustic footprint of a church, for instance, or a jazz club, a movie theater or a concert hall. Another setting is designed for gamers, making explosions boomier and ray guns zappier. Technophiles will...
LESS CHARITABLE A national survey of 11,000 physicians found that those who derive most of their income from managed care are much less likely to provide free services to poor or uninsured patients, compared with doctors whose fees aren't restricted by an insurance company's preset reimbursement schedule...
...paintings are totally mannerist; even today scholars don't agree on what they're actually about. Their oddity is deepened by the fact that Dosso made them up as he went along, adding figures and painting them out as the whim took him, rather than sticking to a preset program of images...
...have two basic choices: to sell short, which means borrowing shares from a broker and selling them in the hope that you can later buy them back lower and pocket the difference; or to buy "put" options giving you the right to sell stock at a preset price by a preset date. These are simple trades that any broker can handle. But each poses problems that are magnified with Net stocks...