Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, UNIFIL managed to delay a few of the Israeli units. A small group of Nepalese troops stubbornly refused to clear Khardala Bridge on the Litani River so that Israeli tanks detouring from the main central advance could pass. Drivers of some 100 Israeli tanks were finally ordered simply to overrun the blockade, pushing the Nepalese aside. On the coastal road, another UNIFIL unit set up roadblocks. The unit watched helplessly as the Israeli tanks pointed their barrels menacingly at them without firing, then bulldozed ahead...
Meanwhile, the unit of the Fifth led by Brigadier Tony Wilson was moving south from the beachhead to Goose Green, and then east toward Port Stanley. At the minuscule settlement of Swan Inlet, 35 miles from the capital, Wilson suddenly had a time-saving idea. Learning that the Argentines had left telephone lines intact, he stopped at a house and phoned ahead to Fitzroy, the next sizable settlement. To Wilson's amazement, someone answered. "Any Argies there?" asked Wilson. "Yes," replied Farmer Ron Binnie, "but they're not here today." Said Wilson: "In that case, I think...
Videotapes do not come in six-packs-not yet, anyway-but a New York City-based company called MovieMat is going to fix it so they can be vended right out of a machine. MovieMat is about to test-market a unit the size of a standard soft-drink dispenser that will hold as many as 20 taped feature films. The customer puts his charge card in the slot and watches previews of the available films. He makes a choice; the machine runs a credit check, relays rental information to a central computer and sends his rental tape down...
...drew the most violent objection from the CSA. Its letter criticizes Bok for failing "to stress the importance of maintaining equal educational access for all students" and accuses him of valuing education not "for its own sake, but because a diploma may make a person a more productive economic unit...
...like an LP record album. A youngster passes a wand attached to the disc over books that contain not only pictures and words but also bar codes on pages similar to those that now appear on grocery items, magazines and other goods. The wand reads the codes, and the unit makes the appropriate sounds. The machine can also sing, bark or even say "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Texas Instruments this year will publish at least eight coded books, including Stranded E.T.'s Adventure, a spin-off from the new Steven Spielberg movie. The Magic Wand costs $120 and each book...