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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police are also likely to focus on the widespread use of fake ID's to obtain alcohol, Johnson says...
...first practical means to print photos on a newspaper page, called the halftone process, did not come into widespread use until the 1890s. Until then, most readers had to content themselves with engravings copied from photographs. Meanwhile, the bulky camera gear of the 19th century hardly lent itself to instant coverage. In the cumbersome wet-plate process, which became the norm in the mid-1850s, pictures were formed on a sheet of glass that had to be coated with an emulsion just before the exposure, then developed at once. Action shots were ruled out by the lengthy exposure times, several...
Within a year came widespread use of the famed Leica, which replaced fragile glass plates with spool-wound 35-mm film. Meanwhile, film was getting "faster," allowing pictures to be taken in almost any light. Thus equipped, the photographer had become, like the modern soldier, a self- contained, highly mobile warrior. His lines of communication were greatly extended in 1935 when the Associated Press inaugurated its first Wirephoto transmission service...
Although Hispanics have suffered widespread discrimination in American society, they should not join the Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, a veteran civil rights activist and a national journalist told about 75 people at an Institute of Politics (IOP) forum yesterday...
...last week were stocked with fruits and vegetables. But fuel supplies were virtually nonexistent. Car owners waited in lines at the city's gas stations for days at a time. There were also acute shortages of many building supplies, which are in great demand as the result of the widespread damage caused by last December's earthquakes. Azerbaijani officials said the trains were beginning to move again, a claim disputed by Armenians...