Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason for the confidence may be the first-ever pre-season practice held for rugby. "These are the best practices I've seen since I've been here," Co-Captain Ray LaRaja says. "There is almost a cocky attitude, which is good because rugby is an arrogant sport with a lot of intimidation...
...exotic bugs gain more of a foothold, USDA researchers have begun exploring new technologies. An X-ray machine that can find soft, fleshy objects like produce is now being evaluated at Miami International Airport. A stethoscope-like device that can pick up the munching sounds of insects as they feed inside fruits and grains is being tested at a USDA laboratory in ) Gainesville, Fla. Not all methods are mechanical. In New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, beagles have been trained to detect contraband flora. Jackpot, J.F.K.'s first beagle, has sniffed out oranges, papayas and two 10- lb. mangoes...
...ordinary high-tech start-up, Pixar stems from Filmmaker George Lucas' special-effects laboratory and boasts two of the best-known names in computer graphics, Edwin Catmull, 41, and Alvy Ray Smith, 42. Controlling interest in the company was purchased in February by Steven Jobs, the co-founder and former chairman of Apple Computer...
...National Basketball Association, on the other hand, has avoided such conflicts with a program for testing players who are suspected of being drug abusers. Three positive tests, and the player is expelled from the league. Such was the case with the New Jersey Nets' Micheal Ray Richardson, who was banned last season. N.B.A. Commissioner David Stern has a simple explanation for how the league came up with its testing program: "We said, 'Let's talk about drugs.' I really credit our players. They faced up to the issue very directly...
...possible teaching application also currently under investigation is a video transmission network, Ray said...