Word: throughness
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The DSP Group in Emeryville, Calif., has developed computerized silencers that can cut through the line noise that makes cellular telephoning a chore. The same technology is being used by Government agencies involved in surveillance and intelligence gathering to improve the performance of eavesdropping devices. Active Noise and Vibration Technologies...
None of the therapists had treated her. Yet they speculated, according to the Globe, that Mrs. Dukakis' difficulties resulted from "taking on her husband's emotional burdens as well as her own"; they implied that the Governor is repressed and in effect made him the culprit in her illness. The...
The probability that such steps will be taken, if not at Malta then soon thereafter, was enhanced by developments in Washington. In recent weeks feuding between anti-Soviet hard-liners like Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and moderates led by Secretary of State James Baker, who favor a more active U.S...
Time travel is the thinking person's UFO, an improbability that nevertheless resonates with mysterious and sometimes marvelous possibilities. But it has become a rather tired topic. It is almost as hard nowadays to create fictional vehicles capable of reawakening childhood reveries about zapping through the years as it is...
If Sullivan believed he could still make his mark through lower-echelon appointments, he has since discovered that there too Sununu has the power to thwart him. Robert Fulton, picked by Sullivan to be director of the Family Support Administration, withdrew from consideration after persistent questions from the White House...