Word: tap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel that somebody of considerable standing should be appointed by the University to tap the resources of the ART for students," he said...
...work of popular art can tap the money machine so deftly without touching a national pulse or nerve. M*A*S*H, a Viet Nam parable that hit the airwaves three months before the Christmas bombing of Hanoi, surely did so. Like the surgeons whose no-sweat heroism it celebrated, the series began by operating on the wounded American body politic with skill and daring good humor. For half an hour each week, hawk and dove could sit together in front of the TV set and agree: war is an existential hell to which some pretty fine people had been...
...second planned program to become part of the Ed School's current Master's program, would "tap new markets for finding teachers," said Jerome T. Murphy, associate dean at the Ed School. The program would train people already established in careers in the technological industries. These people-- mostly 45-50 years old--would then retire early from their former jobs and attend a 15-month training program at the Ed School to become secondary school teachers...
...rocks all night. PBS has opera in German and soap opera in the Queen's English. In the free-for-all called cable access, gurus and do-gooders are proselytizing for churches without disciples, causes without effect. A raunchier access channel offers the spectacle of a young man tap dancing as he undresses to the theme from Star Wars. Click...
Only a day later, Langevin's ruse was discovered. His illegal tap had been recorded on a log maintained by the computer and printed out daily. A supervisor scanned the list and discovered that the Fed worker whose number Langevin had lifted was on vacation. As soon as that worker was cleared, the Fed set a trap. It created fictitious money-supply data and then rigged the computer telephone line with a tracing device. When Langevin made his next call, he was caught. Says a Fed official: "He walked into the henhouse to steal some chickens, and the gate...