Word: quicked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...props. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has become a master. At a reception for a visiting Italian official, Weinberger showed up an hour late, greeted the guest of honor in the glare of a television light that suddenly popped on, chatted with other guests and said his farewells amid a quick round of handshakes. Elapsed time: 14 min., 45 sec. "He knows his presence can make or break an event," said Host Paul Laxalt, whose event had evidently just been made...
...sharply criticizing the administration of Socialist President Francois Mitterrand for having allowed "a serious breach to develop between the government and the country." A centrist and longtime Mitterrand rival, Rocard called on the party to "broaden its appeal to the whole of the country." Party Secretary Lionel Jospin was quick to reply next morning. He was shocked, he said, that "a member of the government would speak to the discredit of his own Cabinet." Said Jospin: "I agree that we must listen to the voice of the French people, but let us not forget the principles of Socialism, the importance...
...sighting of VB 8B was made using a technique known as speckle interferometry, which eliminates most of the distortion that the earth's atmosphere causes to the faint emissions of light from so distant a body. Instead of taking one infrared exposure, the astronomers snapped 10,000 quick shots. A computer then blended all these shots into a composite image...
...stood firmly behind its newest and littlest computer. Said Vice President Philip Estridge in April: "Reports of its demise have been greatly exaggerated." Now it seems that Estridge was right. After a quick series of engineering and marketing changes, IBM appears to have turned its loser into a winner. At stores around the U.S., the PCjr is suddenly one of the fastest-selling computers on the shelves, often outperforming cheaper, game-oriented machines like the Atari 800 and the Commodore 64. "This may be an industry first," says Stephen Guty, editor of McGraw-Hill Computer Books. "No product has ever...
...into space and through the time barrier to confront his own past and a new race's future. The film was about quests, not answers, and at its conclusion an air of benign befuddlement lingered over its hipper audiences like a corona of reefer smoke. Now, in the quick-solution '80s, comes 2010, a sequel whose sole purpose is to explain the ending of its predecessor. Working from Arthur C. Clarke's novel, Writer-Director Peter Hyams lets his movie waltz in place for an hour or so before enlisting the surviving members of the original cast...