Word: bulbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than adequate for Michael and him. Beneath the sink all the drawers of the kitchen cabinet have been pulled out, leaving holes. In an aluminum pie plate on the table, cigarette ashes mix with the remains of a crust. The ceiling is water-stained around a circular fluorescent bulb. The walls are yellow, sallow in the darkening room...
Ceausescu is desperate for more Western trade. Because his highly centralized economy has faltered badly, living standards are so low that the government requires citizens to light each room with only a single 40-watt bulb and for no more than six hours a day. Indeed, Shultz and his entourage decided not to stay overnight in Bucharest in part because they were unsure whether there would be adequate light and heat. When the Secretary's motorcade left the capital at 6 p.m., the city was already as blacked out as London during the Blitz...
...these historic titans of technology are planning a reunion that will form the seventh-largest industrial company in the U.S., with annual revenues of $39 billion. The merger will combine two of the most famous names in corporate America, familiar to anyone who has ever bought a GE light bulb or an Elvis Presley hit on RCA records. By acquiring RCA, GE will strengthen its electronics and defense businesses and take over the NBC television and radio networks. Says GE Chairman John Welch, 50, who will head the combined companies: "We will have the technological capabilities, financial resources and global...
...many pre-meds does it take to screw in a light-bulb? One to screw it in and one to kick the chair out from under...
...junk-crammed happenings that were the talk of the New York art world in the early '60s. The more one sees of Schwitters, the more Robert Rauschenberg's and Jasper Johns' work in the '50s seems to owe to him: the stuffed goat, the paint-soaked bed, the light bulb, the pathetic coat hanger were all predicted in Germany 30 years before...