Word: technician
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...January, Preston Brown, a recording technician, filed an EEOC complaint charging that NPR had refused to train him in new technologies and retaliated against him for protesting. NPR has no comment, but Brown claims to have maintained careful documentation. "I now know that I was denied this training because I am black...
What enabled the Scottish team to succeed where so many others have failed was a trick so ingenious, yet so simple, that any skilled laboratory technician should be able to master it--and therein lies both the beauty and the danger: once Wilmut and his colleagues figured out how to cross that biological barrier, they ensured that others would follow. And although the Roslin researchers had to struggle for more than 10 years to achieve their breakthrough, it took political and religious leaders around the world no time at all to grasp its import: if scientists can clone sheep, they...
...excitement. A notably captivating aspect of the set was the manner in which the lighting was modified to the tempo of each song. Manually operated, the multicolored stage lights were switched on and off faster during the upbeat songs while the slower, drawn-out rhythms calmed the light technician down. Sadly, the Blue Meanies were not much more memorable than that...
...years after he described being beaten by a mysterious man shouting, "Kenneth, what's the frequency?" Dan Rather has finally identified his assailant. Rather said Tuesday that "there's no doubt in my mind" that William Tager, now in prison for the 1994 shooting death of an NBC technician, is the man who repeatedly kicked him while he was walking down Park Avenue in the fall of 1986. Rather was tipped off to Tager's identity by a psychiatrist who interviewed Tager after he was arrested for shooting Campbell Theron Montgomery. Montgomery was killed when he alerted police to Tager...
CHARGED. BRETT A. SAWYER, 38, a private detective, and LAWRENCE SHAWN SMITH, 36, a photo-lab technician; with selling crime-scene pictures taken after the murder of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey; in Boulder, Colorado. Sawyer confessed he paid Smith $200 for the photographs, which he sold to the Globe tabloid...