Word: transmitting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member of the "institutional loop." Harvard could transmit programs from satellite feeds and from a small studio, Pandiscio said, adding universities could broadcast lectures and other programs...
...lavished on an extraordinary mammal. Weighing in at an average of 10 Ibs., the cat has a uniquely flexible backbone. When dropped from a height of less than one foot in an upside-down position, it will land on its paws in an incredible 1.8 sec. Its whiskers transmit complex information about its prey and surroundings to nerve bundles beneath the skin. According to one parapsychologist, the cat may even harbor a trace of E.S.P. A feline named Pooh, for example, who wandered off before the owners moved some 200 miles from Newnan, Ga., to a small town near Spartanburg...
...buys reports, statistics and doctoral dissertations from some 140 different corporations, universities and even the government. When using the service, a subscriber dials a toll-free 800 number and connects his telephone receiver to a coupler device that links his office computer to the DIALOG computer. He can then transmit queries and receive the answers within seconds. Cost for such services can run as high as $300 an hour, a sum that businesses can afford much more readily than the average individual...
...used to call it "Chicken Noodle News" are be ginning to feel the heat: Turner is currently suing the Reagan Administration and the three networks for denying his news teams full participation in pool coverage. ABC learned to its horror last month that it may not be able to transmit live news coverage from London of Prince Charles' July wedding. Reason: CNN, along with CBS and NBC, booked the available satellite time before ABC got there...
...mania not only for music, but for the gadgetry on which to play it. On streets, in parks, on bikes and buses, the latest transistor toy is the portable stereo cassette player. Weighing less than a pound and smaller than a paperback book, it has feather-light earphones that transmit sound of concert-hall clarity directly to the brain of the wearer, without bothering anyone near by. As Detroit Audio Salesman Thomas Badoud puts it, "These babies are unreal...