Word: scans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constellation's brightest star, Arcturus, was slightly off to the side in roughly the place it occupied 13,000 years ago. For this too Lunan had a theory: that was the time when the probe arrived in the earth's vicinity and instructed its onboard equipment to scan the skies and draw up the star map. Lunan even speculates about the intelligent race that dispatched the probe: because their sun has now expanded into a hot ball of fire called an orange giant, they were not merely seeking contact with other creatures, but were actively looking...
...delightful Heartbreak Kid. Still, with all the disproportionate rewards (Simon owns a plush town house, a country place, a Broadway theater, real estate, cattle and, very possibly, the Atlantic Ocean), he seems less than joyful. He has been described, too often, as a mechanical "yockmeister" whose characters are only scan deep. Moreover, the savor seems to have gone out of his triumphs. Another Simon smash is no longer news; it would take a failure to astonish anyone, and Simon seems incapable of one. All of which drove Simon into a deep depression last year, a gloom from which...
...tasteful restraint of Albert Speer and Ramses II"--the authors detail such topics as "Who Owns Congress?" and "Lawmakers as Lawbreakers." The titillating anecdotes include not only tales of corporate and union investment in candidates with funds extracted by threats from workers, but also confessions from Senators who scan the gallery for exposed thighs...
...guests were aghast. Most had never been to New Bedford a scan 40 miles away. Most feared it as ugly, riot-torn, dangerous; as somehow impure and of a different species of America. No, they said, they would play their political games in the suburbs where politics is neat and clean and genteel, and have nothing to do with those ugly places where the work people did made smoke come out of factory chimneys...
...flood of intelligence, some in intricate code, into Cargill's headquarters: a competitor's wheat bid in Latin America, weather conditions in Australia, political jockeying in the Middle East, rumored tax increases in Japan. In the chateau's former living room, a dozen or so executives scan an electronic quote board which tells them the price of soybeans in Chicago, wheat in Kansas City, rapeseed in Thunder Bay and oats in Winnipeg. On the basis of that information, Cargill executives decide what to buy, sell or hedge, often risking sums approaching $ 100 million...