Word: telegraphed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...homosexuals telegraph their sexualorientation to the person they are dealing with,that person has to be very careful with peoplethey are turning down," Kirby says. "It's going tobe a conscious decision to say, 'Okay, I'll rent,I'll hire, I'll lend' to avoid being broughtbefore the Commission Against Discrimination...
...visitors who put on special computerized gloves and helmets can actually experience what it would be like to explore various 3-D worlds -- a space station orbiting the earth, for example, or the landscape of Mars. The gloves are equipped with magnetic position trackers and fiber-optic sensors that telegraph every movement of the hand directly to the machine. The helmet is equipped with a pair of stereoscopic TV projectors, one for each eye, that are carefully coordinated so that a slight turn of the head to the right will shift the entire synthetic world to the left...
Three dark-suited men jumped from a car outside a Tokyo hospital last week and disappeared into the building. When they emerged, district prosecutors had arrested silver-haired Hisashi Shinto, 78, the powerful former chairman of Nippon Telegraph & Telephone. Within days, Takashi Kato, a former Vice Minister of Labor, was also taken into custody by authorities...
...admitted that an aide had taken part in the Recruit offerings, using the Minister's name. Ironically, the fall of Miyazawa strengthened the political position of Takeshita, since the men had been rivals in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Five days later, Hisashi Shinto, chairman of the giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, stepped aside after conceding his involvement in the Recruit stock deal...
...July, when the daily newspaper Asahi Shimbun accused 76 highly placed political and business leaders of unethical trading in shares of the real estate firm Recruit Cosmos, 20 people implicated in the scheme have given up their posts. Last week Hisashi Shinto, 78, chairman of the giant firm Nippon Telegraph & Telephone, resigned after admitting that his bank account contained $73,000 in profits from the Recruit deal. Just five days earlier, Finance Minister Keiichi Miyazawa had departed under a similar cloud...