Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...away as a mile, perhaps -- and then translated by another computer. In theory at least, words typed on a computer screen will appear almost simultaneously on a second screen in the van. Experts differ on how close this technique is to being usable. One figures that a skilled technician could put the basic interception equipment together from components that can be bought in any electronics store for about $300. Maybe so, counters Frank Mason, president of a Fairfield, Conn., company that makes countermeasure devices for the Government, but "you would need almost laboratory equipment" to get a good reproduction. Protecting...
Someone said the encampments outside Albany budget hearings lasted for days at a time. I looked at the ceiling and wondered whether this waiting game became bearable with practice. A camera technician pushed through the crowd with a folded tripod, muttering, "This is the limit. I'm getting my real estate license...
...state-security apparatus seems to have gone amuck. Shin Bet has been under a cloud for some time, but especially since last summer, when its director and three aides were forced to resign amid allegations of complicity in the murders of two captured Arab bus hijackers. In October a technician at Israel's top-secret nuclear complex at Dimona, Mordechai Vanunu, revealed the purported details of the country's nuclear weapons program, never officially acknowledged, in London's Sunday Times. He was later reportedly lured to Rome by a female MOSSAD agent and kidnaped. The caper put a strain...
...nearly a month before the Challenger launch, no important shuttle manager or technician had a single day off. Ten and fourteen-hour days were commonplace. One NASA doctor even told McConnell that heroin, cocaine and hallucinogens were "readily available" on shop floors...
...Baida and halted 200 yards from the Beau Rivage Hotel. Out stepped French TV Journalist Aurel Cornea, 54, who had been kidnaped 9 1/2 months earlier -- along with three colleagues -- by Shi'ite terrorists of the pro-Iranian Revolutionary Justice Organization. As his captors sped off, the dazed sound technician stumbled to the hotel, where French diplomats were waiting...