Word: brainchild
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sebastian Hoppe, the second-year JD/MBA candidate who triumphantly transformed his year old brainchild into reality, made sure everyone who attended went away happy. Each member of the crowd received a bottle of French perfume by Molinard and the current issue of M magazine as they entered the auditorium...
Soon, everyone was waffling around in Bowerman's brainchild, and--as more people picked up running--more flavors of waffles appeared...
...else about the assembly line, however, is highly unusual: the workers are eye surgeons, and the conveyor carries human beings on stretchers. This is the Moscow Research Institute of Eye Microsurgery, where the production methods of Henry Ford are applied to the practice of medicine. The center is the brainchild of renowned Soviet Eye Surgeon Svyatoslav Fyodorov, 57, who calls it a "medical factory for the production of people with good eyesight...
Their collective brainchild, MARBLE, helps companies design and implement computer networks; simulates potentially devastating reactions--such as a nuclear reaction; designs software and hardware; and designs languages. "We market a service, not a product...
...medical memory card is in part the brainchild of Computer Whiz Douglas Becker, 19, of Baltimore, who approached Blue Cross after reading about laser cards in computer magazines. Like the videodisk and compact audio disk, the laser card, which was developed by Drexler Technology Corp. of Mountain View, Calif., depends on laser optic technology, in which a low-power laser beam is used both to burn digital information onto the card and to "read" that information by scanning the surface. Says Becker: "This is a new application for an older mousetrap...