Word: tame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...comes an even more sophisticated effort to tame the VCR. The VCR Voice Programmer, a voice-activated remote-control device being launched nationally this week by Voice Powered Technology, eliminates button pushing almost entirely. Just bark commands into the microphone -- channel number, day, time -- and the machine does your bidding. A viewer can call out commands for a variety of other VCR functions as well, from "rewind" to "zap it" (whiz through the commercials...
...faults the Bush administration for coddling Saddam Hussein in the years--even days--leading up to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. We congratulate them on their miraculous hindsight. But Bush's error was one of judgement, not of intention. By maintaining friendly ties with Iraq, he had hoped to tame Hussein's aggressiveness. A fatal miscalculation, we agree, but an understandable one given the complicated history of the region...
...texture and timbre of the piece are complex, exuberant and expressive. The clarinetist and flutist alternate between different clarinets and flutes, two percussionists play a wide range of instruments and the violinist and cellist play at times with their bows upside down. Wild, chaotic sections contrast with tame sections. The piece ends with a fitting explosion of sound which fades into silence...
...dogs and cats. If even their most conservative projections come true, the next century may bring advances no less momentous than the Bomb, the Pill and the digital computer. Should the more radical predictions prove correct, our descendants may encounter technological upheavals that could make 20th century breakthroughs seem tame...
Although campaigns for Undergraduate Council are usually rather tame, the race in Adams House turned nasty this fall as incumbent council members traded accusations of everything from discrimination to distortion...