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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Already, 180,000 businesses use automatic-dialing systems to deliver pre- recorded sales pitches to as many as 7 million people each day, according to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and 2 million U.S. offices employ fax machines to transmit more than 30 billion pages of information -- much of it unsolicited -- per year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Many Busy Signals | 11/26/1990 | See Source »

...breakthrough feature is the "monocoque," or single-shell construction, which allows the skier to transmit force directly to the edges more easily than with the multilayer sandwich construction of other skis. The S9000 costs $600 a pair, but may become a hot property among racers and aggressive recreational skiers. Salomon (1989 sales: $613 million) aims to become the leading maker of top-flight skis within the next five years. But the climb will be no cakewalk against the industry leaders, France's Rossignol and America's K2, which have carved out loyal followings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORTING GOODS: The Hottest Ride on Snow | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

...patrol the flow of people, drugs and guns across its 1,900-mile border with Mexico. The sensors employed by the Border Patrol tend to be tripped off by every passing cow and coyote. Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque is developing a sophisticated new array of sensors that can transmit photographs of a trespasser to a central monitoring station, indicate direction and speed of movement, and also measure the presence of metal, a signal that the target is armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's A Cow. No, It's a Coyote. | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...poor communities where drug use is rampant, are at risk. A Government study found that about 1% of the black teenage girls who bore children in New York City during 1988 were infected with the AIDS virus. There is a 40% to 60% chance that an infected woman will transmit the virus to her child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Losing Battle With AIDS | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

...associate deputy director in charge of investigations. Those countries include Britain, West Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, according to Courtney. The consultant has developed a few tricks for gauging whether foreign spies are eavesdropping on his corporate clients. In one scheme, he instructs his client to transmit a fake cable informing its European office of a price increase. If the client's competitor in that country boosts its price to the level mentioned in the cable, the jig is up. "You just spoof 'em," Courtney says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Friends Become Moles | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

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