Word: phosphor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explain that the image is created by laser beams reflected onto a rapidly rotating screen, much as a television image is created by an electron beam scanning across a stationary phosphor screen...
...noisy streets and legislatures and the bare chambers of the individual conscience, that most fundamental question -- Who decides whether a woman can have an abortion? -- must itself be redecided. With that, America is entering new moral and political territory, rough and uncharted, but lit by the phosphor of righteous certainties. And as the combatants square off with their irreconcilable notions of life and liberty, the middle ground, what there is of it, promises to become scorched earth...