Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anticipation of just such a rescue, Solar Max's creators equipped the satellite with a pin, or trunnion, near its midriff. It forms a perfect mate with a gadget to be carried by Nelson that looks like a fat belly button. NASA calls that protrusion TPAD (for trunnion pin attachment device). Nelson will attach the TPAD to the pin and then fire some of the MMU'S thrusters to brake Solar Max's rotation...
...General, and when William French Smith stepped aside, Reagan was quick to oblige. Meese's legal qualifications were hardly overwhelming: a 1958 graduate of the University of California Law School at Berkeley, he spent eight years as deputy district attorney for Alameda County, Calif.; worked briefly as a button-down attorney in private industry; and from 1978 to 1980 taught criminal law at the University of San Diego Law School. (As a professor and consultant, he earned less than $100,000 a year. His White House salary is $72,000.) But for Reagan, it was enough that Meese...
Shrime's company, Micro Star, next month will begin offering the paperback-size instrument in both a plastic case ($400) and a brass one ($700). To use the device, travelers press a button to enter the name of the city they are visiting. A built-in microprocessor then does virtually all the rest. Shrime, a Lebanese Christian, spent two years designing the guide after consulting with Middle East Islamic leaders. The device has legions of potential customers: Islam counts more than 500 million followers...
...cost of making the computer. One of the keys to the increased productivity is cutting the time spent handling materials. Parts arriving at the factory are placed on conveyor belts that carry them to storage. Then, when they are needed for assembly, an operator has only to push a button to transfer them to the work station, either by moving belts or by vehicles guided by wires embedded in the floor. In some cases, robots attach parts to circuit boards...
...words that came into millions of American households last week told a story as tawdry as any soap opera, in language sometimes more explicit than any prime-time series: "I put my hands inside her pants and she unbuttoned her button . . . The two of us fell to the floor. She was laughing, I was laughing, I started pulling her pants. She was willing . . . Three or four-I don't know-people were around ... I heard from behind me for us to go to the pool table...