Word: rest
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...typical system brings up a schematic diagram of the house. Another tap produces a display of the air temperature in every room. By selecting from a series of menu choices, the homeowner can tell the house to heat the bedrooms to a comfy 72 degrees F while leaving the rest of the rooms at an energy-saving 65 degrees. Or a family can order the air conditioning turned off while they are out of town and restarted three hours before they are due home. Once instructions have been recorded, the system automatically controls the flow of hot and cold...
CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG: AMERICAN DREAM (Atlantic). The title cut on this reunion album delivers more bounce -- as well as a bit of bile -- than the rest of the album combined, but the guitar work has some fire, and those famous harmonies can still soar high...
...therapy, together with the borrowing binge required to finance the budget and trade deficits, produced the economic expansion now in its seventh year. Today, with unemployment at a 14-year low of 5.3% and inflation at a tolerable 4.4%, Reagan has a shield against charges that his economic accomplishments rest on quicksand. When asked about the intractable pathology of the underclass, he sometimes replies, accurately but irrelevantly, that the newspapers are full of help-wanted ads. That a booming economy cannot match the chronically unemployed with available jobs is an irony Reagan chooses to ignore...
...chances of a person's being a future embezzler or goldbrick. Ruth Brayer, president of Graphological Services International of New York, sees signs of dishonesty in illegible handwriting and retraced lines. Brayer, who counts Citibank among her clients, also hears warning bells "when a signature looks different from the rest of a person's handwriting...
...covered with sand and pebbles to await future digs. "As archaeologists, once we've excavated and documented the find, our work is done," said De Marinis with a sigh, "but from the public's point of view, covering up is the opposite of what's being done in the rest of Europe. The tendency is to leave it open to see." Already, a 5th century Christian church and a Roman fabric-dyeing plant are back under sand...