Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Show and he's demonstrating the Miracle Vegetronic. You know, the one that slices, dices, cubes, chops, grates, shoestrings and shaves a tomato so thin you can read a newspaper through it? Well, I sent in my $10.27 plus postage and handling to Fly-by-Day Enterprises, P.O. Box 18,274, Ocean View, Kans., and it's been seven years now and I haven't heard. Can you help...
...computer revolution began coming to supermarkets in the early '70s in the form of the UPC (Universal Product Code), the odd, stamp-size box of black bars and numbers printed on just about everything from soup cans to the covers of TIME magazines sold in the U.S. The UPC was to be the core of a system that would not only keep up-to-date records on inventories and prices, but also eliminate cash register errors, since check-out clerks would tot up a shopper's bill by merely passing the purchases over an optical scanner capable...
...pilots contend that the technology for such a system is at hand, and they cite one "black box" device used successfully by the McDonnell Douglas Corp. on the F4 Phantom jets it produces and tests near St. Louis. The airborne box sounds a Klaxon when a Phantom pilot is on a collision course with another plane and even tells him whether to go up, down, left or right. Simultaneous and opposite orders go to the other approaching pilot. But the device is expensive (up to $15,000 by one estimate...
...exact nature of the "normal relations" that both sides have promised to start up after the treaty is signed. Beyond that there is the question of how the Israeli settlements in the Sinai will be dismantled-a potentially explosive domestic issue for Begin's government (see box). It has been taken for granted that United Nations forces will become available to monitor the new agreement, but that issue has yet to be discussed by the Security Council, where the Soviet Union has a veto...
Chafin said various letters had been ripped in half, others had just been opened, and contents had been removed from their envelopes but left in a box on the floor. He noted one letter containing a check was ripped in half but could "just be pasted together again and used...