Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urgency of the situation, President Carter brought both sides to the White House last week and pressed for a quick settlement-a rare and potentially risky presidential intervention. At week's end, bargaining talks were jolted by union rejection of the owners' proffered terms, and Labor Secretary Ray Marshall disclosed that a government takeover of the mines was among the worst-case scenarios being studied by the Administration. Meanwhile, Governors from the twelve Eastern-Central states most deeply hurt by the walkout arrived in Washington to coordinate their plans with the President and his energy advisers...
Shadowed by a previous 5-7 record, Harvard gave "100 per cent of its effort," Ray Martin, the team's coach, said yesterday...
What is happening is not only believable but inevitable. In the words of science-fiction Writer Ray Bradbury, "It's pure sci-fi." Across the country, "these magical beasts," as they have been called, are assisting hassled, often incompetent teachers. They are revivifying soporific students, dangling and delivering intellectual challenges beyond the ken of most educators. Says Bradbury: "Millions of buildings' worth of mostly outdated literature and information will be stored on tiny capsules for retrieval when needed. There's too damn much paper around anyway...
Output. Processed data are translated by this section into electrical impulses that can control an almost endless variety of devices. Thus the output may take the form of words or numbers "read out" on high-speed printers or glowing cathode-ray tubes. It can also emerge as an artificial voice, commands to an airplane's steering mechanism or even directions to another computer...
Harvard Coach Johnny Lee was unsure of his lineup going into the final matches against the Generals, but when the Crimson's Keith Oberg reversed Ray Gross in the final seconds of the 142-lb. bout, "the hay was in the barn." Lee summoned Jon Franklin to appear at 167-lbs. and the Harvard grappler responded with a pin in the final second of the bout to notch his second victory of the evening...