Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CLOCKS AND CALENDARS. Also selling well these days are some low-cost packages that equip personal computers with electronic versions of the aids found on conventional desktops: clocks, calendars, calculators, note pads, Rolodexes. Software that allows a PC owner to check the time, look up an address or remember an important luncheon appointment has been available for years. But switching from a clock to a Rolodex usually means shutting down one program and starting up another--a laborious exercise that generally is more trouble than it is worth. The key to these handy new programs is that they...
...require cyclists to equip bicycles with brakes, reflector, and either a bell or horn, register them with the local police department, and follow the same traffic rules governing vehicles, including signaling and obeying all lights and signs...
...another spin. The badly divided Congress Party was widely accused of graft and incompetence. Mrs. Gandhi's main interest was in claiming the role of a great power. She detonated India's first atom bomb in 1974 and reached out for Soviet aid and weaponry to re-equip India's armed forces...
...spoiled child. Back in 1974 we got almost the same $2.6 billion in U.S. aid as in 1984. But over the past decade, the price of a fighter jet has gone from $4 million to as high as $40 million. Basically, we seek two things: to re-equip ourselves with the same number of planes and tanks as before; and to restructure our economy toward science-based, high-technology industries, and on that we would like to ask your help. But the time will come when we will no longer have to depend on American support...
...should equip the future student's room with the capability to carry voice and video signals--from the highest tech room to the average dorm room--five years down the road," said Hall, citing cable as a means, to transmit audio, visual, textual and computer data information...