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WATCH, police. To watch is, properly speaking, to stand sentry and attend guard during the night time: certain officers called watchmen are appointed in most of the United States, whose duty it is to arrest all persons who are violating the law, or breaking the peace. (q.v.) Vide 1 Bl. Com. 356; 1 Chit. Cr. Law, 14, 20. |
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A typical calculator or electronic watch, for example, lasts about 18 months before the product designers add new features that make the old model passe. Seiko won a Grand Prix award, the highest honor in watch making, for the best Electronic Watch of 2006. UMC was initially founded as a small-scale IDM chip manufacturing company in 1980, that licensed technology from RCA to enable the delivery of its first product: an electronic watch IC. |
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