Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...producers of Charlie's Angels are off the hook...
...hoopsters came out on to the floor keyed up and ready. Seven minutes into the first quarter they led, 17-8, and it looked like a rout was underway. The staunch Crusaders refused to buckle, however, and with unerring patience Holy Cross's big gun Mary Ann Palazzi and hook shot specialist began to chip away at Harvard's lead, drawing to within one point and then moving ahead with four minutes left in the half...
...Generals and Majors," with its hummable hook and over-blunt satire, is the stuff of a hit single, "Living Through Another Cuba" is the single best song the impending hostilities have yet inspired. A rising-and-falling arpeggio of treated guitar and human wailing leads into an over-heated, pseudosalsa beat, as Andy Partridge half-talks the lyrics...
Many companies are even working to hook up their so-called smart machines so that they can communicate with each other. One such arrangement might allow a company executive to dictate a memo into a smart dictating machine that will then distribute it, electronically, to offices around the world. Copiers linked to teleprinters would print and duplicate the memo, route it internally as well as "file" it in the electronic memory banks of field office computers...
...born inventor who founded Wang Laboratories in 1951. The Lowell, Mass., company produces state-of-the-art equipment for the office of the future. Wang Laboratories dominates the market for so-called integrated information systems. These are elaborate combination of computerized word and data processors, high-speed printers, telecommunications hook-ins and video display terminals used by secretaries and their bosses. And such office innovations are likely to continue. Says Wang: "The cost of parts keeps getting lower, and the applications are getting wider...