Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...size of a stick of butter, that permits users to give commands to the computer with just a push of a button. Like Lisa, Mac relies heavily on symbols and pictures on the screen to help people conquer computer phobia. But unlike the more expensive Lisa, Mac cannot swap information between different programs...
...kinetic musicals that Richard Lester directed for the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night (1964) and Help! (1965), and Performance, the definitive rock-'n'-roll nightmare of 1970, wherein Co-Directors Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell had a pop star, played by Mick Jagger, swap identities with a hood. Jagger's centerpiece number was a malevolent and mystical barrage of imagery that could be every rock-video director's tapsource and textbook. The movie did not seem so much to impact as simply to implode. The effects can still be seen, 24 hours...
...their screens into rectangular blocks, or windows, giving them the look of desktops littered with sheets of paper. Both systems attempt to address two fundamental challenges facing the personal computer industry: how to get the same program to run on machines put out by different manufacturers, and how to swap information smoothly between different programs. At present, for example, software for an IBM machine will not run on an Apple computer, and most users cannot easily take information from a financial analysis program and send it to a client via electronic mail...
...many investigators sought information about the two men as possible suspects that last month a three-day conference was held in Monroe, La., to pool the facts. Eighty investigators from 21 states gathered to watch videotapes of the confessions, swap notes on missing-persons files and unsolved homicides, and compare crime lab evidence. And this week 150 detectives from all over Michigan will convene in Lansing to attempt to determine whether Lucas, and possibly Toole, is linked to as many as eleven unsolved murders in the state...
...industry's biggest companies have decided that the only way to survive the slide is to get together and streamline their operations. Through a swap of stocks valued at $770 million, Republic Steel of Cleveland, the fourth largest U.S. producer, intends to merge with Pittsburgh's Jones & Laughlin, which ranks third in the industry and is a subsidiary of LTV Corp., a Dallas-based corporation that also manufactures aircraft parts and rockets for the military. Together, Republic and Jones & Laughlin control 15.9% of the steel market, and the combined company, to be called LTV Steel, will stand second...