Word: tap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pressure for a greater role in space is also coming from the military. Fearing Soviet strides in the development of killer satellites and other threatening products of space technology, the Pentagon is looking for new ways to meet this challenge. One tactic has been to tap the resources of such places as J.P.L. Says Pentagon Research and Engineering Chief William Perry: "The Russians regularly build more tanks and planes than we do. The only option open to us is exploiting our technological advantages. An area of tremendous advantage is space...
...international money transfer department of New York's Citibank, 50 people sitting before desktop computer terminals silently tap away at coded keyboards and thereby handle the work that it took 430 people to perform...
...Norwalk, Conn., market research company, predicts that such machines will be available by 1983 and in general use by 1989. Other experts say that executives will soon be able to operate a machine simply by touching it. An executive wishing to see his morning mail might only have to tap a picture of an In basket displayed on his screen. Doing so would tell the computer to print out on the screen whatever morning mail the executive had waiting for him in the computer's memory bank...
...almost certain that the Soviet authorities will tap the phone," Kate Sugarman '83, head of the Soviet Jewry Committee at the Hillel said last week, adding, "we really have to be careful about saying anything controversial that would further jeopardize the safety of the refuseniks-we really just want to give them a moral boost...
...Lynda and Melvin get back together, it is her terpsichorean gift that briefly rescues him from having to succeed in his ingenuous but feckless quest for the "Milkman of the Month" prize at the dairy where he takes a job. She picks up money to pay the bills by tap dancing off with the top prize on Easy Street, a parody of one of those game shows that are themselves a parody of the American dream. But she leaves Melvin again, this time for good, when he invests some of her winnings in a huge cabin cruiser; this he parks...