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Vector graphics to the extreme _ even at high price.
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Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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March 14, 2007
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Byline: James Coates
Today's vocabulary builder word is "vector," girls and boys. You know, as in that classic scene in the "Airplane" movie series where the navigator is named Victor and one pilot's first name is Roger and the other's last name is Oveur.
The shtick goes roughly like this:
Control tower to navigator: "Check your vector, Victor."
"Roger, over," says Victor.
"Roger," says Oveur; "over."
"Roger, roger...
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