Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the laser, or its high-tech cousins, seems able to protect one superpower against an ICBM strike, the tenuous equation will be upset. Neither the U.S. nor the Soviets could afford to let the other side become invulnerable; such a concession would be virtual surrender. Reagan said last spring that the U.S., if it did have space-based missile defenses, would never abuse the shield by launching an offensive first strike. But, concedes Major General John Storrie, an Air Force space official, "we walk a very narrow line in these matters between strategic defense and offense." The Soviets cannot...
Always, in his paintings, one feels that things are happening on the other side of the frame, which is a virtual proscenium. It is exactly this removal that equipped him so well, at the outset, as a stage designer. As Friedman argues at some length in his text (and as a group of Hockney's easel paintings, included in the show, makes clear), theater has never been far from the core of his art. His shallow space quotes the conventions of the stage: flats, curtains, wings. There is a taste for exotic figures (red Indians, ancient Egyptians) and stage...
Life in the city ground to a virtual halt. In between bouts of shelling, people rushed out to buy food and find water. Streets were deserted save for motorists looking for an open station and their share of increasingly scarce gasoline. The highway to the south, though guarded by Syrian troops, remained open, allowing thousands of people to stream out of the city and away from what they feared would be a final siege...
Perhaps the most important attribute of the cruise missile which few consider may be its virtual invulnerability to Anti Ballistic Missiles (ABMs) and laser defense weapons. Because cruise missiles stay low and inside the atmosphere. ABMs are worthless, for they can only target ICBMs. Moreover, laser beams dissipate too easily while tracking cruise missiles inside the atmosphere...
...companies now enjoying the greatest growth in personal computers are those that produce virtual clones of IBM's PC. Houston-based Compaq Computer, which last week announced that it was registering stock for an initial public offering, makes a portable version of the PC. Sales of the 21-month-old company reached $36 million during the quarter that ended Sept. 30. Eagle Computer, which had sales of $14.2 million in the three months ending Sept. 30, a more than fivefold increase from last year, now sells nine IBM work-alikes. Boasts Eagle President Ron Mickwee: "We have more...