Word: printings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cachet that opens doors. His logo is a grinning golliwog. On promotion tours he startles fans by handing out 3-in. plastic black doll pins as mementos. His first Louvre show, a spoof on the Mona Lisa, included such numbers as "Jungle Lisa loves Tarzan" (decollete leopard-print gowns) and "Moona Lisa" (Plexiglas-bubble headgear and silver- star-studded dresses). At his second Louvre show, two weeks ago, the crowd shrieked and whistled its approval for such outfits as "Cowboys" (fringed jackets and pony-skin patterns) and "Blackamoors" (gold and silver turbans over satin cocktail suits). The invitation...
...most common biometric security system so far is the fingerprint scanner. In Japan a developer is installing the devices in 360 luxury homes as a security selling point. A health spa in Denver employs a print scanner to keep track of how often its members use the facilities. MAPCO Inc. of Tulsa relies on a system from Identix, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., to ensure that only authorized truck drivers are allowed to transport loads of dangerous gases...
...other hand, every new term, however inelegant, is given the treatment that long ago distinguished the OED from all competitors. This dictionary does not merely give etymologies, pronunciations and definitions; it also provides a word's earliest known appearance in print and uses quotations to illustrate the context in which the word has been used and all shifts of meaning to which it has been subjected. Hence AIDS (another lamentable addition to the lexicon) is defined and then traced back to its presumptive print debut, in the Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report of Sept...
...glance, this may seem unremarkable; the difference between a lot of ; words on the page and on some terminal screen appears to be chiefly one of weight. But that is not the whole story. Electronic information can be made available to interested readers in a manner not possible through print. The task of devising software that would ferret out new uses for the OED2 was assigned to the University of Waterloo in Ontario. There a team of computer scientists led by Gaston Gonnet and Frank Tompa, both 40, responded with a vengeance...
...problems escalate when nations print more money in order to pay back their debts, causing hyper-inflation. In Bolivia inflation grew to 24,000 percent. The government had to give its employees raises at a rate approaching that of inflation. They only took in taxes at properties assessed at the previous year's rate. For this reason, countries found themselves in even worse financial straits, with rapidly burgeoning deficits...