Word: objects
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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N.C.P.A.C.'s main object was to expose the incumbent's voting record for the citizens back home. The Senators tended to vote to the left of their constituents while playing down this fact in their campaigns. Says Viguerie: "N.C.P.A.C. went up to the doorsteps and left the dead cats...
...robots are learning to "see" and "touch," and report to their computer brains what their new senses tell them. To see means to decipher what appears before a TV camera; to touch means to measure not only the size and shape but the temperature, softness or vibration of the object grasped by the claw. Robots can also hear, and could presumably be taught to taste and smell, but these would be mainly indulgences, not necessary to their work ethos. On the other hand, robots are now being outfitted with senses that no human being has: the perception of infrared light...
MATEP, which is designed to provide electricity, chilled water and steam to 13 institutions in the Medical area, will not be cost-and energy-efficient until the installation of the diesel engines, but the community opponents object to the possible environmental threats the plant poses...
...WHEN America should be doing all in its power to nurture mass transit, the Greater Boston area this week faces the shutdown of its subway, bus and commuter rail service. The paradox presents an object lesson in the venal intricacies of Massachusetts politics; it represents as well an opportunity too good to miss for the transformation of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) into a stable transit network...
...result of such an encounter (one cannot be quite sure that it was the same one) was Object (Roses des Vents), which Cornell began in 1942, tinkered with for years-as was his habit, there being few precise dates or prompt solutions in his work-and finished in 1953. Emblems of travel, dwarfed mementos, a little box of mummified waves and shrunken coasts, peninsulas, planets, things set in compartments with an air of rigorous sentiment, each of the 21 compass needles insouciantly pointing in a different direction: it is the log of no ordinary voyage. (Even...