Word: karl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disabled users, researchers and half a dozen computer companies has been meeting under the auspices of the Federal Government. One tangible result: the tiny bumps on the touch-typing "home" keys, which are now standard equipment on all Apple keyboards. "You still have to learn how to type," says Karl Dahlke, a blind software engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Naperville, Ill. In that regard, however, the able and the disabled are on equal footing -- which is just how the handicapped like things...
...legendary 19th century Military Theorist Karl von Clausewitz called it simply the "fog of war," that unfathomable combination of human personality, weapons performance and just plain luck that makes battle so unpredictable. This "fog," the Pentagon declared last week, was largely to blame for the tragic decision by the U.S.S. Vincennes on July 3 to shoot down Iran Air Flight 655, killing 290 civilians...
German Mathematician Karl Gauss assumed that those inhabitants were intelligent. In 1820 he proposed growing a huge wheat field in Siberia in the form of a right triangle, surrounded by pine trees, that could be seen from afar. That would demonstrate to the Martians, Gauss figured, that earthlings not only existed but understood mathematics...
...periwinkle, mint and peach. For this year's gala, he will feature richer, deeper colors, hand-woven textures and fabric accented with tassels and trims. "Picture a sarape, or Mexican blanket," he says. "That's my theme." Already his vision has caught the eye of the fashion establishment. "If Karl Lagerfeld had designed those dresses," said Herrera after seeing Ramos' show-stopping stretch denim minidresses, "they would be the hit of the season...
Among non-Hispanic designers, the popularity of Spanish lines, like the current vogue for Christian Lacroix's exuberance, is in part a reaction against the restrained styles of the past few years. "We went through a period in which we looked very severe," says Karl Logan, a Los Angeles-based designer whose collections have borrowed such Latin touches as high-waisted pants and cropped jackets trimmed with beaded fringe. "People want something that is more refreshing and uplifting," he insists. Young designers of all cultural extractions are working to capture the best elements of Spanish design and create a distinctive...