Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Questionable practices occurred in the administration of health and travel insurance programs...
...officer at the cramped headquarters scans his file cards and quickly puts together an appropriate team that usually consists of a doctor, a surgeon and an anaesthetist, as well as nurses or paramedics. By telephone or telegraph, the volunteers are found wherever they happen to be in the world; travel and expense money to the site of the mission is provided by relief agencies, airlines or private donors. Special equipment, including surgical tools, resuscitation apparatus, vaccines and about 30 basic drugs-often contributed by pharmaceutical manufacturers-are packaged in advance and ready...
...even hurt sales. Irv Kupcinet, who conducts the Chicago-based Kup's Show, will even call publishers to suggest they cut short tours that he believes will be unproductive. He explains: "Some authors give this backward projection, and I tell the publisher they are only hurting themselves." Promotional travel usually gives the biggest boost to the biggest books. According to Esther Margolis, vice president for publicity of Bantam Books, the paperback sales of Peter Benchley's Jaws doubled, from 4 million to 8 million, after the author made the rounds...
...conventional telephone hookup, sound waves entering a microphone are converted into electrical pulses, which travel along a copper wire to another phone, where they are converted back to sound waves. In a typical optical arrangement (see diagram), sound waves entering a telephone microphone are converted into electrical signals. These signals pass through an encoder, which converts them into electrical pulses that switch a laser on and off, interrupting a light beam being sent into the end of a fiber. The light thus travels in a series of pulses, not unlike Morse code, that race along the glass "wire...
...with ESP, telekinesis and other psychic phenomena can also raise questions about the demonic origins of the possessed individual's reputed ability to mentally hurl objects around and read minds. Martin tries to deal with this criticism; one of the exorcists challenges a group of parapsychologists dabbling in astral travel and reincarnation by asking whether, if preternatural powers exist, they must be good, or whether they might not be diabolic in nature...