Word: attics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scientist, who created VisiCalc in 1979. With nearly 400,000 copies sold for up to $495 apiece, VisiCalc, a financial-analysis system for businesses, remains the single bestselling piece of software. Like other successful programmers, Bricklin, 31, and Frankston, 33, have expanded their business well beyond the prototypical home attic where many first get their start. They reinvested the VisiCalc income (more than $11 million) in their new company, Software Arts, with headquarters in an old chocolate-factory building outside Boston; the number of employees has already grown from the original two to 80. The company's latest program...
...those of towns. When the sacrificial names collide, their hammers fall. For Brademas, these deaths reveal a new layer of violence: "We thought we knew this setting. The mass killer in his furnished room, in his century, feeding Gaines Burgers to a German shepherd . . .Men firing from highway overpasses, attic rooms...
More than one third of the museum's space is being rebuild to accomodate the new equipment, including the enter basement and attic which have in the past been disorganized and inefficient, according to museum officials...
...release of five more hostages. Some 30 hours after the initial occupation, the gunmen discovered a Polish military attaché, Zygmunt Dobruszewski, hiding in an embassy annex. Wysocki and his friends also failed entirely to detect the presence of Polish Attaché Jozef Matusiak, who was concealed in an attic. Eventually, Matusiak managed to crawl through a window onto the shingled embassy roof, and Swiss commandos standing by with ladders hauled him to safety...
...told him, 'you just cry, you're going to be better afterwards.' " The Falklanders have been far less resourceful, even somewhat helpless, in coping with the arrival of the British forces. The soldiers have filled nearly every house in town up to the attic, drying their uniforms across backyard clotheslines...