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...voice-recognition systems in most of these devices can be compared to a human searching through a key ring for duplicate pairs of keys; by aligning two keys at a time, he can quickly locate any pairs that have identical sawtooth patterns. In the electronic equivalent, a spoken command is transformed into a varying electrical current that can be represented by a wave with a characteristic set of peaks and troughs. This wave form (see diagram) is converted into a template, a pattern of zeros and ones that the computer can digest and store. By prerecording a number...
...window of vulnerability" in U.S. missile power before it took office in 1981, contends that the Minuteman silos can be "hardened" with additional concrete. But whether they would be strong enough even then is doubtful. In an attempt to defuse the issue, Air Force General Bennie Davis, commander of the Strategic Air Command, vainly sought to convince a congressional subcommittee three weeks ago that the "window" expression was shorthand not for silo exposure but for overall strategic inferiority...
...Tibetan prayer wheel." Thatcher, who had proclaimed Gorbachev "a man with whom we can do business" after meeting him in Britain last December, said she was not changing her opinion after conversing with him for 55 minutes in Moscow. Said Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney: "He's clearly in command and I think it augurs well for the future. I was very impressed...
Officially, Roth's crime was "willful disregard and violation" of the church's constitution in disobeying a command from his superior, Kenneth May, bishop for the Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Synod. More broadly, however, the Roth case is part of an ongoing conflict in the Pittsburgh area over social-action protests by some two dozen Protestant clergy. Unemployment in the region stands at 9%, and in some pockets is almost double that. Roth and his colleagues in the radical Denominational Ministry Strategy repeatedly blamed local businessmen for the economic suffering in the mill towns. D.M.S. and its allies adopted such...
Loosely modeled on British equivalents, 17 fledgling nanny training centers, from Haddonfield, N.J., to Sacramento, have opened their doors in the past 18 months to homegrown applicants. They offer eight- to 15-week courses of study, including such subjects as child development and coping with separation anxiety. Graduates command $175 to $300 a week for their services; live-ins receive room and board, and most get medical benefits as well...