Word: bulb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sculley, then demonstrated how their wireless technology could reproduce the scripted message on a fax machine a few rooms away. As the fax whirred, the former chairman of Apple Computer saw visions of a global wireless revolution and his own role in it. "That's when the light bulb went off in my head," he remembered. Within weeks, Sculley and Caserta announced their corporate betrothal, whereby Sculley would become Spectrum's new chief executive, bringing to the marriage the reputation of a man who had transformed Apple from an $800 million upstart to an $8 billion giant...
...shoplifters beware: sometimes the Coop is watching. "One day I walked right out with a light bulb and a pillow case," recalls the senior male. "These two scary guys came up and grabbed me and made me feel awful. Then I was put in jail and I had to promise I would never go to the Coop again...
Locating a gene from scratch, says Collins, is like "trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the East and West coasts without knowing the state, much less the town or street the house is on." Even the most comprehensive DNA chart available -- the human-genome map completed late last year by Daniel Cohen and colleagues at the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphism in Paris -- is terribly sketchy and riddled with errors...
...character's face is half covered in shadow, creating a veil effect. In one or two places this device might have made a clever comment on Gallimard's (and everyone else's) culturally induced blindness. Instead it just seems like nobody has enough sense to switch on a light bulb...
...many government workers does it take to change a light bulb? Forty-three, according to a safety procedure proposed last year at the Rocky Flats nuclear- weapons plant in Colorado. Al Gore's report credits the Denver Post for disclosing the 33-step process that a plant staff member wanted to adopt for replacing the light bulb that warns workers of nuclear accidents. The proposed guidelines would require an estimated 1,087 worker hours to complete, compared to 60 hours currently...