Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sometime later in the evening-"time-shifting," as the original District Court decision characterized it. When he comes home to watch the show, he can escape the repeated ads for Golden Hits of the '60s and gold-plated Ginzu knives just by a timely manipulation of the last-forward button on the VCR. As Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, says. "If you're an advertiser and suddenly the message you're paying millions of dollars for is being eliminated in maybe two thirds of the audience before it even has a chance to view...
...closet liberation a cause that has almost universal support from husbands. While his wife Grace was off for two weeks on their yacht Gracara, Novelist Harold Robbins (Spellbinder) hired an engineer friend to design an automated clothes conveyor that could display her wardrobe at the touch of a button. "Before I installed this carrousel, we couldn't even find the dogs," cracks Robbins. "None of our cooks would stay. My wife's clothes filled up all their closets too." Though the new arrangement accommodates 700 garments, it holds only evening dresses, resort wear and luncheon clothes. The overflow...
Perhaps the most innovative and unique aspect of the Macintosh is the "mouse," a small box with a button which controls the image on the screen...
...tell the Macintosh what to do, one moves the pointer on the screen by sliding the mouse across the desk. Once the pointer reaches the desired item on the display, a click of the button on the mouse sets the machine in motion...
...carried in a tan tote bag, has many of the features Apple introduced in January 1983 with its Lisa computer. It uses a "mouse," a pointing device the size of a stick of butter, that permits users to give commands to the computer with just a push of a button. Like Lisa, Mac relies heavily on symbols and pictures on the screen to help people conquer computer phobia. But unlike the more expensive Lisa, Mac cannot swap information between different programs...