Word: scan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardest things to comprehend about software, at least for consumers, is the price. While the cost of making a floppy disc and the packaging runs only about $4 to $7, the software sells for much more. A data management program like dBase II costs $700, while Micro/ Scan II, a stock-analysis program, can be as much as $12,500. Even a popular educational product like Bank Street Writer has an undis-counted price of $69.95, and a program to teach a preschooler the alphabet...
...provocative thesis and a debatable one. But with secularization still marching on, almost unimpeded, Protestants and Catholics have much to reflect upon as they scan the five centuries and Luther and the shared future of their still divided churches...
...study of nuclear magnetic resonance, a method of measuring the frequencies of signals emitted by atomic nuclei under the influence of radio waves in an electromagnetic field; of a heart attack; in Zurich. NMR has revolutionized medical science as a diagnostic method without the ionizing radiation of CAT-scan X rays or painful injections of contrast material...
...minutes until air time, and still no sign of the star. Standing on the portico of Tokyo's TV Asahi station, her manager, her producer and her director nervously scan the driveway. Five minutes...
...diagnosed, too many brain cells may have died for the process to be reversed. "If we can come up with better diagnostic procedures, it might be possible to block the progress of AD chemotherapeutically in the next five years." says Gibbs of NIH One promising method is a new scanning process called PET (positron emission tomography), which measures glucose metabolism in living cells. PET-scan studies by Dr. David Kuhl of U.C.L.A., among others, have revealed drastic decreases in metabolism in the brains of AD patients. Kuhl hopes to develop an early diagnostic test so that AD patients can "receive...