Word: rheostat
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Club Baths, San Francisco, November 1982 . . . When the moaning stopped, the young man rolled over on his back for a cigarette. Gaetan Dugas reached up for the lights, turning up the rheostat slowly so his partner's eyes would have time to adjust. He then made a point of eyeing the purple lesions on his chest. "Gay cancer," he said, almost as if he were talking to himself. "Maybe...
Such pressure has increased the urgency for the Administration, as Shultz puts it, to "turn up the rheostat." The Secretary of State is expected to reveal a few adjustments in constructive engagement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on July 22. The changes, however, will probably be mild and largely cosmetic. Shultz has admitted that Washington's "ability to pressure South Africa is limited." But if the U.S. does nothing, it may forfeit even that limited role, not only in South Africa's current affairs but also in the future of that tormented country...
...spheres at either end of the projector. Its control booth, situated at the edge of the auditorium, looks like the cockpit of a spaceship. A three-panel console has 150 buttons and 70 knobs. To bring out a star, the operator pushes two black buttons simultaneously and turns a rheostat marked STAR...
...corner last week, solicitors for Audience Surveys Inc. invited passers-by to a free "evening of entertainment" at a theater on Sunset Boulevard. The entertainment consisted of previews of two new television series, and all that the survey company asked of its audience was that each guest manipulate a rheostat-like dial during the show-twist it counterclockwise toward "very dull" or clockwise toward "very good" as the mood struck. On both coasts, CBS's Program Analyzer Unit conducts similar screenings, except that CBS's sample viewers operate not dials but buttons-pushing the green one when they...
...does not lock there-nothing but the car's weight keeps it in place. Power is provided by electric current picked up by brushes that run along the metal strips flanking the slot. Race tracks have from four to six slots running parallel, each connected to a rheostat to enable the "driver" to control the car's speed. Herein lies the skill; going into a turn too fast will result in a "spin-out," as it does in a real...