Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head of a women's rights program for the Association of American Colleges, Mrs. Sandier, 44, likes to wear a button that says UPPITY WOMEN UNITE. Last week she told some 85 top college administrators and faculty members meeting at the Irvine campus of the University of California that feminists will go all out next fall to get more women hired and promoted at U.S. colleges. They will have help. The session she addressed was financed by the U.S. Office of Education to tell college officials that they must make a "genuine effort" to recruit women and treat them...
...York to Tokyo, but the Washington program has special features. Some 450 Washington buses are now being equipped with radio transmitters that will link them to the central computer. Thus, if the driver wants to set up a series of green lights for himself, he can press a button requesting the computer to give him those signals at cross streets. If the computer, upon scanning the traffic in the area, decides that the request is justified, it will send commands to the appropriate street lights. If the computer thinks otherwise, it will ignore the request...
...process, enrich his life at that moment. This happens as you focus through the view finder. It's not merely the camera you are focusing; you are focusing yourself. That's an integration of your personality, right that second. Then when you touch the button, what's inside you comes out. It's the most basic form of creativity. Part of you is now permanent...
...Logos, people grasp for symbols of personal identify and some form of order for their lives. Several are pathetically familiar. One health-faddist coed wears a button proclaiming "CARROTS:" a liberal professor nervously skitters around the barren campus with an armband that reads "TREES." A studious team-mate of Gary's furiously memorizes the words to a long poem in a language he doesn't understand, for a course in "The Untellable." ("Knowledge of German was a prerequisite for being refused admission...
...passengers quickly and efficiently around crowded metropolitan areas, airports, university campuses and large shopping centers, the electrically powered "people movers" have no operators or conductors, move along fixed routes under the control of a computer, and do not pollute the air. PRT passengers enter a station, push a call button and are picked up within a few minutes. By pressing an appropriate button aboard the vehicle, they can make a swift nonstop trip to another station of their choice. Says William Magruder, the President's special consultant on technology: "Think of the system as a horizontal elevator...