Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Florida's 1,200-mile coastline, along back-country roads and at dirt airstrips. Fishermen churning home to Miami through the Cape Florida channel may be startled to find a white Customs launch bearing down on them. Blue-shirted men with bolstered revolvers play a high-intensity beam through cabins and scan decks with night-vision goggles. Near by on the Miami River, other officers crouch in a thicket of weeds, training binoculars on a rusting banana boat, watching for seamen debarking with suspicious packages. To the south at Key Largo, deputy sheriffs with high-powered rifles cruise through...
...struggled along for years on sparse church commissions until the boom hit in 1973; its business then started tripling annually, to $170,000 in 1977, and 90% of its output now goes to homes and businesses. Dealers specializing in supplies for the craft have also been transported on a beam of dancing light (green). Hollander Glass company in Long Beach, Calif., which started in 1956 as a small studio specializing in windows for churches and residences, is now solely in the business of selling the glass-$4 million worth...
...Super Sunday at the Super Bowl, [Jan. 16]. For too long have we faithful fans gobbled up hours of insipid, rampant commercialism for the sole pleasure of watching poorly played, overprogrammed games. It was televised not out of love for the game, but so that huge corporations could beam down their benevolent images upon us. From now on, either we boycott it or they must pay us to watch...
...project called Gamma Guppy that has tried to eavesdrop on conversations conducted by members of the Soviet Politburo in their limousines. Another James Bondian device: a laser bug. The laser shoots a narrow stream of light against a window, which will vibrate from the sounds in the room; the beam grabs an "image" of the vibrations, which is then converted back to sound by a special receiver...
...Bell people and the Hertzes and the Maxwells raised their dust, and radiowaves with ultrahigh, superhigh or extremely high frequencies--those ranging in wavelength from 100 centimeters to a millimeter--became known as microwaves. These "microwaves" are very intense concentrations, "short-waves" of electromagnetic radiation focused into an intense beam. They travel through matter, can be reflected by electrical conductors, and can be directed accurately. Thus, microwaves revolutionized communication. They are responsible for television communications, radio (especially FM) broadcasts, CB radio, satellite communication, radar, sonar, and electric garage-door openers...