Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peril, of telephone bypass is typical of the new era in telecommunications. The Bell System, in the end, was done in by the rush of technology. The system's structure could not contain or protect itself against better and cheaper ways of allowing people to reach out and touch someone. Boundaries crumbled between voice and data transmission, between domestic and international calling points, between telex, submarine cable and satellite. What counted was communication between parties, sometimes machines, no matter how or where...
...already offering two new versions of its standard telephone that show the way the phone is going. Both instruments have key pads and display the date and time or the number of the person being called on calculator-style windows. The Touch-a-matic 1600 ($160) can store up to 16 phone numbers. The $680 Genesis Telesystem, which AT&T Chairman Charles L. Brown uses at home, can forward calls to another number, remember 75 alphabetized names and numbers and restrict outgoing calls...
With approximately 10 minutes to go, the Crimson scored a breakaway try. A high kick by fly half John Beilenson was fumbled by a Yale back, and Gus Spanos cleverly set up the touch by Jim Rubin...
Brian Carilli, assistant facility manager for labs, acknowledged the professors' grievances, but said disruptions were caused by the "complex nature" of the job." The workers shut things off or touch things that they aren't supposed to," he said, adding. "Our batting average is not good right now, but we're trying to improve...
...maintained the traditions of a New England college more faithfully. Anyone visiting the two colleges would think Yale by far the older institution. The past of America makes itself felt there in many subtle ways: there is a kind of colonial self-reliance, and simplicity of aim, a touch of non-conformist separation from the great ideas and movements of the world...