Word: sections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compile information for a Yellow Pages for West Virginia Women. Like the Boston and New England versions of these "yellow pages," the book, to be published in May, focuses on women's concerns in employment, health, education, law, etc., but addresses itself specifically to West Virginia women. One section, for example, explores opportunities for women in coal mining. Another part describes emerging small industries run by women, such as quilting cooperatives; only recently have these women begun to market and sell the region's traditional crafts and handwork. The book's food and nutrition section contains information on gardening...
...Cambridge Police closed that section of Mass Ave shortly after the alarm went out at 10:30 a.m., and reopened it when the fire was brought under control...
Control. This is the computer's traffic cop. It gets instructions stored in the memory section and interprets them; it regulates the memory and arithmetic-logic sections and the flow of information between them, and orders processed data to move from the memory to the output section...
Output. Processed data are translated by this section into electrical impulses that can control an almost endless variety of devices. Thus the output may take the form of words or numbers "read out" on high-speed printers or glowing cathode-ray tubes. It can also emerge as an artificial voice, commands to an airplane's steering mechanism or even directions to another computer...
...seeks to extend federal price controls to natural gas that never leaves the state where it is produced (only gas piped across state lines is now regulated), but would raise the ceiling by about 19%. The increase would give producers more incentive to explore for new fields. The other section would increase the price of domestically produced crude oil by some 63% over the next three years through a federal tax on producers. This would bring prices to world levels set by OPEC and thereby discourage consumption...