Word: transmitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month. One stringer tells of a producer who gets angry when he brings in story ideas, because the station can't afford to buy them. Other stringers have stopped submitting pieces because the network still owes them backpay. Where NPR once made extensive use of its satellite system to transmit live pieces from Argentina or the Middle East, the news shows are doing more pieces from Washington to save money. Many believe the network should not channel all funds toward paying off the debt, but rather direct the funds to ensure that the quality of the programs survive. "The programs...
...Japanese completely abandoning their old copycat tactics. One noteworthy case occurred with fiber optics, a rapidly expanding field in which glass fibers are used to transmit information in the form of laser light pulses. The Japanese breakthroughs came only after Corning Glass, a leader in fiber optics, made the mistake of applying for a Japanese patent. Since the patent process is open to public inspection, Japanese firms studied the U.S. company's approach as well as the subsequent work of Bell Labs, and then made their own innovative improvements. Japanese fiber optics are today as good...
...reactions to various substances, Freeman found that about 50% of those tested showed allergic reactions to marijuana pollen. The villain is the male pot plant. Says Freeman: "Fine pollen is produced by the male plant and released into the environment." The female pot plants? Guiltless. They do not transmit pollen...
...call these theories GUTs (for Grand Unified Theories). Central to this framework is the existence of new particles, tiny fragments of matter (or energy, since the two are interchangeable) less than a trillionth the size of a bacterium, itself only about a ten-thousandth of an inch long, that transmit these forces...
...same time, the 1968 reforms did little to change many traditional characteristics of the French education system. While the public schools are renowned for their ability to teach basic intellectual skills and transmit a distinctive culture, they are still criticized by progressives for their lack of breadth and creativity. A centralized bureaucracy continues to rule the schools, with fairly rigid curriculums and exams. Though French society as a whole prides itself on its democratization, the schools remain hierarchical and elitist. Separation of social classes remains strong and tends to be reinforced by the routing of students along various academic...