Word: circuit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...petition is a gimmick designed to fatten G.O.P. coffers, to be sure, but Reagan was perfectly happy to play along. On the fund-raising circuit himself last week, he told a Texas audience that as he flew over the Dallas Convention Center, where he was renominated in 1984, he thought, "I wonder how folks down there would feel about giving it one more try?" As the audience broke into delirious applause, Reagan quickly added, with his showman's timing, "I'm kidding, of course." But not wholly. Reagan has come to see the 22nd Amendment as limiting presidential leverage...
...being impatient. He and his copilot, Jeana Yeager, 34, had just spent 111 hours aboard the experimental aircraft Voyager without stopping or refueling, flying 11,600 miles and unofficially breaking a 1931 record of 84 hours aloft and a 1962 mark of 11,337 miles in a closed circuit...
...machine around two widely available components, the Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS DOS) and the Intel 8088 microprocessor chip. Reason: IBM wanted to use standard equipment so that software companies would write programs for its computer. The only element of the PC that IBM copyrighted was the integrated circuit called the Basic Input Output System (BIOS), which controlled how the software interacted with the hardware. But by building circuits that simulated the BIOS, enterprising computer jocks created machines that could legally run the same software as IBM's machine...
...makers of IBM-compatibles simply clone the features from the PC. Chatsworth, Calif.-based Tandon, which originally built disk drives for IBM, announced last week that it would begin marketing an IBM-compatible that features its own integrated circuit technology. Tandon, which expects to charge $1,155 for its new machine, is able to curb costs by manufacturing some of its components at plants in India...
...Connor, plan to add up the magic numbers of their 34-year-old MGM hit, Singin' in the Rain, plus many others, during an eight-month tour of the U.S., Britain and Australia beginning next winter. Reynolds, who has been touring with her own show on the variety circuit, phoned O'Connor, who had been appearing in a nostalgia-trip revival of Showboat, and the two tried out their act in a smash stint three months ago in Atlantic City. Their 1 1/2-hour show will cover four decades of music, from Singin' through today's hits, but, says O'Connor...