Word: attics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Light in the Attic, Silverstein...
...energy-related terms. Don't know what a Pelton wheel is? Press the word on the screen, and presto!, a swirling water turbine appears. A different set of screens shows a colorful cutaway drawing of a house. Wondering how to make your home energy-efficient? Just touch the attic, for example, and watch a demonstration of how to insulate it. According to Emmett Cunningham of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the genial director of the exhibit, "It's the best and most durable public information system I've seen in 25 years in the exposition business...
Patrick says he got down off the platform, let the guy have a look, and went to crash at a nearby commune of militant lesbians who kept a stash of rifles in their attic...
Through its aggressive dealmaking, the fledgling company, which had only about 20 traders operating out of a fifth-floor attic above a Wall Street area clothing shop, elbowed its way into the thick of play. Using what they thought to be sophisticated, computer-guided trading strategies based on a secret computer program code-named Arnold, Drysdale's two top dealers, Richard Taaffe, president, and David Heuwetter, chief trader, managed in little more than three months' time to amass an astonishing $4 billion-plus portfolio of borrowed U.S. Treasury securities...
...Light in the Attic, Silverstein...