Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...goods and distributing products, and the people who do this work and prosper from it will form a powerful influence within each country fighting against any disruption of the system by political elements. It is more difficult for radicals to seize mines, bomb factories or interrupt shipping when they know their own people have an interest in keeping these activities going...
...tanks rumble across the Polish border, countries like West Germany and France will feel every vibration. Poland has special meaning for them, and not just because of its proximity. Long-standing cultural ties and a large emigrant population have produced enormous sympathy for Poland in Western Europe. Leaders there know that public opinion would never let them forgive Moscow if it ever intervened. An invasion, they fear, would not only destroy detente but possibly provoke a perilous East-West confrontation...
...robot arm wait while the camera does all the things it needs to do," says GE's Mirabal, who says he has looked at 20 vision systems and found none that is economical. "Touch is going to be very important, because all the robot needs is to know that something is happening or not happening. Just one piece of information that can be analyzed quickly." While most of the touch systems are developing a robot claw's ability to measure objects, some are more elaborate. The Lord Corp. of Erie, Pa., hopes to market within five years...
...They feel their authority is undermined." G.E., for one, commissioned a psychologist to study the effect of the introduction of robots on workers, and it found the greatest anxiety among foremen. Says James Clark, operations manager of the Westinghouse Elevator Co.: "The fear is: 'What do I know about this? What will I be supervising? Will I be killed if it doesn't work...
...made up extending from Qin Shihuang and Elagabalus, through Hearst, the sheiks and Allan Carr, we would need no Broadway shows. It is not just their poly urethane clouds and disco chambers; it is their hilarious innocence, their religious concentration on themselves. What's more, they rarely know how entertaining they are. Nero, for example, when he entered his Golden House with its statue of him self, 120 feet high, and its private lake, observed: "At last I am beginning to live like a human being." Who but a real trouper could have come up with a line like...