Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later that day, accompanied by her husband Denis, Thatcher visited a Cadbury chocolate factory, donning a white smock over her elegant suit. She spent several minutes cramming brightly wrapped chocolate eggs into yellow boxes. "How many to the box?" she asked over the roar of the machinery. "Forty-eight," was the answer. "Can I do it?" she asked at once, and promptly sat down to pack two boxes. She lamely tried to stuff chocolates into trays that glided slowly past her on a conveyor belt, but found the job difficult. "It takes concentration, doesn't it?" she said with...
...road from Panther Valley to national prominence was long blocked by the FCC. Not until the 1970s did two events combine to broaden the cable audience dramatically: the FCC's first steps toward deregulation and, more important, the coming of satellite transmission. Since 1975, cable programmers (Home Box Office, a subsidiary of Time Inc., was the first) have been bouncing signals off an RCA communications satellite, Satcom 1, which hovers 22,300 miles above the equator. That makes it easy for programmers to send signals from a single studio via satellite and earth stations into cable systems all over...
...cable. For an additional $8 to $10 a month, a subscriber gets a decoder box. It unscrambles pictures transmitted over a special channel by a for-cable-only programming company that sells its service to the local cable operator. Main offerings: recent movies, some of the quality of Annie Hall, The Turning Point and The Goodbye Girl, often shown just after they have finished running in local theaters; sports events (e.g., a U.S.-Soviet track meet not carried on regular TV or even basic cable); and entertainment specials, often Las Vegas-type revues built around a single star such...
Thievery aggravates another nagging problem: service. When something goes wrong with a cable-attached set, there may well be a problem determining whether the trouble is in the set, the cable hookup or the decoder box. If the latter two, the cable operator must provide service; some operators are quick in responding to calls, others are not. Thieves tapping ineptly into a cable system can ruin cable reception for everyone on a block...
William G. Delahunt, Norfolk County district attorney, said yesterday investigators found the coins in a duffle bag and a fishing tackle box buried under pipes and debris in a South Shore community. He declined to give the exact location...