Word: tape
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Toyota unveiled its sleek new line of luxury cars last week at auto shows in Detroit and Los Angeles, nervous company officials stood by with rolls of tape. Their task: to cover up the new product's name, Lexus, if a three-judge appellate panel in New York City barred Toyota from using it. Not until the judges permitted the name to be used, at least through Jan. 30, did the Toyota employees return to wholehearted sales pitches for the stylish car, which will compete in the $20,000-to-$40,000 price range...
...journalists. In his important study of the civil rights movement, Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch writes that by 1963 Hoover was so convinced King was a danger to America that the bureau no longer alerted him to death threats. In late 1964 FBI agents mailed a threatening letter and tape recording of King's sexual escapades to his wife, apparently in hopes that the revelation would drive him to suicide...
Although the quality is not good, the tape concludes with a dramatic rush of pictures at the end of the dogfight--when the last Libyan MiG is suddenly within visual range...
...tape supports additional assertions of administration officials that the two F-14's repeatedly tried to maneuver away as the Libyan fighters pursued them; the pilot of the lead F-14 can be heard counting each time he tries to head away, only to have the "bogies jink back into...
...audio portion of the cockpit tape is about 7-1/2 minutes long, while the video portion lasts less than 30 seconds. The audio portion shows that early on in the confrontation, the American aviators became concerned about the Libyans' intent...