Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...population of 1.3 million have been replaced by towering apartment blocks, "because they are more efficient to heat," as one official explains. Journalists were discouraged from wandering off on their own down side streets. But, even along the main avenues, those familiar with the teeming pavements and traffic jams of Seoul, the South Korean capital, were surprised by the small number of people in the streets. The official explanation is that since the industrious North Koreans are exhorted to toil eight hours, study eight hours and sleep eight hours during the six-day work week, there is little time...
...keep ahead of the uncertainties brought on by supply interruptions, Exxon uses a pair of IBM 3033 computers that are constantly updated with details that show, among other things, where the entire Exxon fleet is at any moment, and toward what ports the ships are headed. Sometimes the telex traffic originated by the so-called LOGICS system takes on real drama. Recently, when LOGICS operators learned that an Exxon tanker was due to call at the Colombian port of Buenaventura, where marauders in small boats are common at night, a message was quickly dispatched to the ship's master: "Beware...
Residents will be glad to hear that the Quad's face-lift went well. The sod is beginning to take root, and fences barring traffic across the newly sodded lawns will soon be removed...
...ability to remain over one place for months, it can not only detect bursts of heat with infrared sensors but also record developments with extraordinarily accurate cameras. These photographs can reveal strategically important changes being made at Soviet missile silos, like modification of the launcher size, and unusual traffic to and from a suspected new missile site. Another of the satellite's most important functions is to tune in on electronic data being relayed from missiles to Soviet tracking stations during tests...
Experts lined up in Nesbitt's courtroom last week to testify against the electronic nemesis of motorists. "Radar is highly inaccurate, and the officers who use it are grossly undertrained," claimed former Traffic Cop Rod Dornsife. Said Dale Smith, who used to manufacture the units and is now a consultant for Fuzzbuster radar detectors: "Our experience shows that radar is probably wrong 30% of the time." That comes as no surprise to many an aggrieved driver, let alone maligned houses and palm trees in Florida. Bring back the cop on the motorcycle...