Word: use
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Davis has supervised the installation of our global computer system. "TIME was in the Dark Ages in 1984," she says. "Many correspondents were working on typewriters and sending their copy by wire." Now, thanks in no small part to training they received from her, they write on computers and use telephone lines to transmit their stories with the press of a key. "Some people take to it like a duck to water," Davis says, "and others require a lot of hand-holding." One incentive for the correspondents to learn, of course, is that they know they can use the system...
...rough landing strip on Forest Service land near Mount Rainier National Park. There is a campground nearby, and a tract of huge trees, each about 12 ft. or 15 ft. in diameter and 175 ft. or more high, reserved from cutting to show visitors what the forest used to be like. Old logging roads lace through this damp, shaded museum tract. Huge stumps rot here and there among the living trees. These are significant: it is obvious that a sizable number of trees can be cut without killing the forest. Saplings and a complex tangle of undergrowth spring...
...false reading? The report cites "stress, task fixation and unconscious distortion of data" by the crew as likely causes. Whatever the IFF signal, Crowe said, Rogers would not have relied on it alone, since Iranian military aircraft have been known to use Mode III to hide their identity. The report said the Airbus was not using its normal weather radar, which would have conclusively identified it as civilian...
...other hand, his release might be greeted by an uncontrollable uprising of millions of black South Africans for whom he is the leading symbol of resistance to the apartheid system. Last week Botha renewed his long-standing offer to free Mandela if he would publicly renounce the use of violence for political ends -- a bargain Mandela has repeatedly refused on the grounds that prisoners cannot make deals...
...Mandela should "choose to go back to prison" and that he hoped Mandela "will make it possible for me to act in a humane way." That meant, he said, that he was prepared to release Mandela if he would reject political violence and pledge not to support those who use...