Word: reflexively
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Child-welfare groups and educators in several areas are mounting public- education campaigns aimed at stopping the "report-card reflex." The programs, modeled after one begun in Houston by the Child Abuse Prevention Council, use newspaper ads, TV and radio announcements, school flyers mailed to students' homes and brochures inserted into report cards. All these materials contain the same basic message for parents: raising voices or fists is not the answer to raising grades...
Hailed as the finest-grain color film ever made, Ektar enables photographers to enlarge pictures to poster size with almost no loss of clarity. The film is recommended for use only with a single-lens reflex camera, as Ektar is currently available in just two speeds: very slow (ISO 25) and very fast (ISO 1000). Clarity will not come cheap: Ektar 25 is expected to cost about $6 for a 24-exposure roll, compared with $4 for Kodak's most popular film, Kodacolor Gold...
With lightning quickness, Loeser ducked under his lunging opponent and swiped the win with a "reflex touch." Loeser was immediately mobbed by his ecstatic teammates...
...three models, the Olympus SuperZoom makes what are perhaps the most impressive technological leaps. To keep its weight and cost down, the camera uses a separate viewing window rather than the so-called single-lens reflex design adopted by Yashica and Chinon. To ensure that what the photographer sees matches what is captured on film, Olympus engineers had to link the viewing window to the main lens in such a way that the viewfinder zooms as the lens does. Yashica and Chinon avoided this complication by using the standard SLR prism-and-mirror arrangement that lets one view and shoot...
...ambitions to be a political philosopher. The long scholarly pull did not suit his polemical talents and gregarious nature. His friend Literary Critic Hugh Kenner put the matter concisely when he said that Buckley "was simply moving too fast to think, by which I mean that thought had become reflex...