Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...November 1987, Olga Gonzalez, 30, was stopped at a traffic light in Miami Beach when a black Corvette piloted by a man with a touch of gray hair pulled alongside. After a brief conversation, she exchanged phone numbers with the charming driver, Mario Rodolfo Portell. He called that night to ask her out, and before long Gonzalez had fallen in love. It was an affair to remember. At Portell's urging, Gonzalez arranged to purchase a kilogram of cocaine through an acquaintance. But federal drug agents busted her and the dealer, and she is now serving a seven-year prison...
...biometric security systems may be incorporated into automated-teller machines and employed at checkout counters to verify that a person is not using a stolen credit card. "In time," predicts Joseph Freeman, head of a security market-research and consulting firm in Newtown, Conn., "you'll be able to touch a spot on your steering wheel and start your...
Though the U.S. inspection system is among the most comprehensive in the world, it depends on methods -- sight, smell and touch -- that are suited to the hazards of the turn of the century. "At the time of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, the problems were visible -- lesions and rat hairs and dirt," explains Diane Heiman of Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, a Washington consumer group. "But today we've moved beyond that to invisible hazards, like pesticide residue and bacteria and microbiological toxins...
...addition, a concerted effort between The Crimson and minority student groups could be made to encourage more minority students who are in touch with the minority community to join the paper's staff. Perhaps they could lend a more comprehensive view of stories being covered, as well as assist in the location of factual information...
...days when the only extra services your telephone provided were the time and the weather. Thanks to New York City-based Phone Programs, a pioneer in prerecorded hot lines, everything from fresh sports scores to stale Henny Youngman jokes are now no farther away than the buttons on your Touch-Tone phone. The latest offering: daily messages from Samantha Fox, Bobby Brown and other recording stars. Initially dismissed by the music industry as an offbeat stunt, the gambit may become rock 'n' roll's hottest promotional device since the video...