Word: transmitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great. A Brando or a Bogart in a dumb macho role could breeze through, thinking of what he'll do after work, and still steal the show. They are great actors even when they're not, because they're screen actors-the closer the camera, the more vibes they transmit, naturally. Olivier couldn't sleep through a picture-his face isn't revealing enough, and he needs a stage of gestures and intense dialogue to make his talents felt. Steve McQueen, on the other hand, who probably couldn't get cast in a high school Christmas play, never...
Along with their inherited covenant and consensus, the founding fathers also still had access to a more intact sense of tradition and tribe. Through these, moral values and norms are transmitted. Tradition and tribe can burden people, but they can also produce an identity and point of reference. Today mass mobility and mass higher education, the intrusion of public communications, failure of nerve-all conspire against parents who would embody and transmit continuity of values...
...which users can tune their sets to transmit or receive on any of 23 channels in the high-frequency band, close to the "land mobile" channels used by cab companies and others...
Until improved insecticides destroyed many of the mosquitoes that transmit encephalitis, the disease often hit thousands each year. Despite improvements in mosquito-control methods, encephalitis still persists, particularly in humid, swampy areas. Of the 100-odd victims in the hardest-hit Mississippi town of Greenville (pop. 40,000), many live in the poorest part of town. Of those infected in Illinois, most live near cemeteries, where mosquito larvae have been flourishing in water-filled flower vases...
...difficult to treat or eradicate. No effective way has been developed to immunize people against it. Health officials are concentrating on spraying and swamp-drainage programs aimed at cutting down the number of mosquitoes, for the only known way to prevent encephalitis is to eliminate the pesky insects that transmit...