Word: transmits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cavemen who between club fights make such momentous discoveries as fried eggs, cooked meat and gay sex. Lack of lines doesn't bother Ringo, who has made plenty of wordy but forgettable flicks since the Beatles broke up. "It's far more creative to be able to transmit all these feelings without words," says he, adjusting skins far different from those he pounded as a Beatlemaniacal drummer...
...institutions whose overriding purpose is to discover and transmit knowledge it has often seemed best to tolerate unpopular opinions and questionable behavior for the sake of giving the most talented individuals the opportunity to publish and teach," Bok wrote...
...anesthetic. Doctors scan the woman with pulsed sound waves to locate the fetus, the umbilical cord and the placenta. After making a small incision in the abdomen, they insert into the uterus and the amniotic sac a pencil-lead-thin tube containing an endoscope with fiber-optic bundles that transmit light. This enables the physicians to see tiny areas of the fetus. By inserting biopsy forceps into the tube, doctors can take a 1-mm (.04 in.) skin sample from the fetus. They prefer to excise it from the head, where there are no major blood vessels or nerves...
Although federal guidelines limit the area to which WHRB may transmit, the new equipment will permit saturation coverage within the metropolitan area...
...night-to-night basis. The speed with which television reports events is a technological marvel. Says Bill Leonard of CBS: "TV has become like radio in its instant global capability. In the past two years, thanks to the satellite and the electronic camera [giving reporters the ability to transmit from the field], we have a capability that is immeasurably larger...