Word: tap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firms, Microrim, from Bellevue, Wash., and Artificial Intelligence, from Waltham, Mass., demonstrated programs that allow people to search for information in large mainframe computer data banks by posing questions in ordinary English. A new firm called Menlo, based in the Silicon Valley, unveiled In-Search, which allows callers to tap into Lockheed's huge Dialog bibliographic data base without the usual two-day training seminar...
...This is not punishment, I don't think." Johns, who lives in Hayward, Calif, with his wife, LaFaye, said "I think it's a tap on the hand for what...
...registration could be the campaign fiasco that leaves egg all over the collective GOP face, which is why Republicans are spending so much money for relatively few votes. But they are treading carefully. The Republicans and their allies especially the Chamber of Commerce and the Moral Majority-want to tap only those constituencies they are after-in particular businessmen, young professionals, people who live near army bases, and evangelical Christians; otherwise, they could awaken a sleeping giant...
...Citicorp purchased California's big Fidelity Savings & Loan ($2.9 billion). During the 1960s and '70s, many money-center banks began looking overseas in search of opportunities to expand. But with their books now showing bad debts from Poland, Brazil and other countries, bankers are trying to tap safer, domestic markets...
Unified church support for Jackson is still far from certain, but the potential is vast. The seven largest U.S. black denominations have nearly 17 million members in 63,000 congregations, and there are millions more blacks in other church groups. Attempts to tap this potent reservoir of support began in earnest last November when Jackson spoke to a Memphis convention of the Church of God in Christ. Since then he has been constantly on the move, giving articulate, passionate sermons in churches large and small, and raising funds in a manner indistinguishable from taking up a collection...