Word: powers
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...were simply watching and waiting, and if presented with a distasteful political scenario they might once again demand the keys to the national palace and slaughter their political opponents. In other words, Chileans were not scared of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte himself; they feared his uniform and the power it signified, even after he'd given up wearing...
...macro scale, AeroVironment designed and built the Pathfinder, a six-engine, battery-powered, unmanned plane with a 121-ft. wingspan that in 1998 flew to an altitude of 80,400 ft., higher than any propeller plane has ever flown. The Centurion, a successor model with an enormous wingspan of 206 ft., is using solar cells, and, says MacCready, "we're expecting to fly it to 100,000 ft. in late spring." The ultimate descendant of these craft, the Helios, will have a fuel-cell energy-storage system to provide power for flying at night. That will enable the plane...
...perform required highly skilled engineers and technicians just a couple of decades ago. Such "computer-assisted design" software packages are now used in every engineering discipline, as well as by architects and clothes designers. They represent the latest chapter in the story of automation, which started by amplifying the power of our muscles and in recent times has been amplifying the power of our minds. Since the Industrial Revolution was born two centuries ago with automated textile machines for the English clothing industry, we have been eliminating jobs at the bottom of the skill ladder while creating new (and, incidentally...
...PERFECTED HOME PICTUREPHONE: Any day now, engineers are going to figure out how to make videophones cheap enough for someone besides the chairman of Goldman Sachs to use at home. But "now" is the postderegulation telephonic age and the heyday of high-powered telemarketing. Do you have any idea what this means once the Picturephone becomes a common household appliance? It means: "Hi, I'm Kathie Lee Gifford singing the Trans-Vox Long Distance Weekend Offer Song!" "It's me, John Madden, inviting you to sign up now for a low-interest KashKard!" "Got a minute? I'd like...
...with this election. All of a sudden Florida is a kingdom of hallucinations, an elaborate legal speculation on what the voter's intention was - the world's greatest power prize hanging on a punch-out confetti of chads and the interpretation of dimples. Now you see it (the presidency), now you don't. Magicians with law degrees pull votes out of hats, or double-bottomed suitcases. Ballots flutter in and out of the process like butterflies...