Word: touche
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Montgomery said Sunday, however, that Kim's chances for commutation are only "touch and go." Unlike Reischauer, who said the Carter administration has "been weak" in dealing with the Chun government, Montgomery said President Carter "has done quite...
Western European leaders worry that a misstep in Poland could touch-off an international crisis of truly ominous dimensions. If Soviet tanks rumble across the Polish border, countries like West Germany and France will feel every vibration. Poland has special meaning for them, and not just because of its proximity. Long-standing cultural ties and a large emigrant population have produced enormous sympathy for Poland in Western Europe. Leaders there know that public opinion would never let them forgive Moscow if it ever intervened. An invasion, they fear, would not only destroy detente but possibly provoke a perilous East-West...
...that robots have proved efficient and economical, the main effort is to create "smart" robots and thus give them an ability to make decisions. To become smarter, robots are learning to "see" and "touch," and report to their computer brains what their new senses tell them. To see means to decipher what appears before a TV camera; to touch means to measure not only the size and shape but the temperature, softness or vibration of the object grasped by the claw. Robots can also hear, and could presumably be taught to taste and smell, but these would be mainly indulgences...
There are some experts, though, who believe that sight is much less important than touch, either undersea or on the assembly line. "I can't afford to let the robot arm wait while the camera does all the things it needs to do," says GE's Mirabal, who says he has looked at 20 vision systems and found none that is economical. "Touch is going to be very important, because all the robot needs is to know that something is happening or not happening. Just one piece of information that can be analyzed quickly." While most...
...Director Stansfield Turner arrived at the Jackson Place town house, briefed Reagan for 90 minutes, and left stonefaced and silent; he knows that he will be replaced, probably by William J. Casey, Reagan's transition chairman, who sat in on the meeting. But the ritual had one touch of humor. Hurrying to the briefing, Bush bounded up the steps of 712 Jackson Place and began shaking hands with puzzled secretaries from the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation before he realized he was at the wrong building. Said Bush to newsmen: "You can always tell...