Word: streamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...regard their hobby as a naturalist rejection of high-tech culture, the rebuke often requires frequent jet trips, Leitz 10 x 40-B Trinovid field glasses, Bausch & Lomb or Questar spotting scope and a Sony TCM-5000 tape recorder, especially souped up for birding by Saul Mineroff of Valley Stream...
Hart's personal financial situation is not precarious, say close colleagues, but he has so little accumulated wealth that with two children in college, he needed to begin work immediately. Said Dixon: "Like the rest of us, he can't afford to interrupt that income stream. He can't just take a year off and write novels." The author of two novels already, Hart does hope to start another one in his spare time...
...that just highlights the paradox of Wal-Mart. For all its lingering Bible Belt ways, the company is in most other respects forward thinking. When it comes to technology, Wal-Mart leads the industry. The company is now installing a satellite communications system that will enable a constant stream of sales and inventory data to flow between each store and headquarters. Such information is quickly relayed to ten giant warehouses, which keep the stores well stocked at all times. Every Wal-Mart is within a day's drive of one of these storage depots...
...citizens returning from north of the Rio Grande. The president of the municipal council, Enrique Gonzalez Martinez, estimates that 25% of the town's inhabitants now work in the U.S., most of them illegally. By sending home some or all of their pay, they keep a steady stream of dollars flowing into the local economy. Their absence has taken pressure off employers, who, like many in economically straitened Mexico, have no jobs to offer. If Gonzalez's worst fears prove true, some 3,000 people may arrive in the next eight months. Says he: "The future of our town depends...
...finger pointing was inflamed by the conflicting reports surrounding Linder's death. Eyewitness accounts reaching both Managua and the U.S. suggested that Linder and some government workers were measuring the water flow of a stream in a northern village when a band of contras struck. The contras claim that a fire fight ensued, a distinct possibility since the Sandinista leadership encourages Nicaraguans to carry weapons in war zones in self-defense. The rebels regard anyone armed or in uniform as a combatant, though the Sandinistas view many of the same people as civilians. It remained unclear whether Linder, who sometimes...