Word: bulb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easily be mentioned with Stravinsky, Picasso and Joyce. His life was the embodiment of one who moves from rags to riches, from anonymity to internationally imitated innovator. Louis Daniel Armstrong supplied revolutionary language that took on such pervasiveness that it became commonplace, like the light bulb, the airplane, the telephone...
...backpack one night a week with home-built equipment. Soon, with the help of volunteers, Dunifer, 46, was selling kits around the country, enabling anyone who could raise a few hundred dollars to launch a station with a transmitter powered by fewer watts than a light bulb, often covering a radius of only a few miles. Dunifer co-edited a book, Seizing the Airwaves, and mounted a how-to Website www.radio4all.org) When the FCC sought an injunction against his station (motto: "Turn On, Tune In, Take Over"), a federal judge in Oakland, Calif., turned the agency down on First Amendment...
...Brown's important studies described what Brown termed "flash-bulb memory--the phenomenon by which during emotional situations a person may remember otherwise insignificant details...
...will include $5 billion in tax incentives and research grants aimed at spurring businesses toward energy efficiency, even without being bound by a treaty. The White House is also hoping that new advances in technology--say, refrigerators that can run on the energy it takes to burn a light bulb--will help make the treaty seem more consumer friendly. Its success in the end will depend on expanding America's environmental constituency: Will the soccer moms give up their sport-utility vehicles for a future of fresh...
...rely on (e.g. a phone call to safety, authority figures, having sex in a tent). To keep everything falling apart and yet not interfere with the narrative pushes some horror movies into nonsense: so many lights go out or break down that one could make a very good light bulb joke about the whole thing, I am sure...