Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...market. A team of IBM researchers, for example, is laboring on the dictating machine of the 21st century. The future executive will talk into a machine that will automatically turn his spoken words into a printed text that is displayed on a video screen. With a push of a button, he could also have a copy of the memo on paper. IBM thinks it might be able to give a laboratory demonstration of the technology in about five years...
...perhaps the same thing, but it's still more limited." Trying to work some stretch into those limitations, Ellis' leading men's jacket for fall will be long, narrowing gradually from the shoulder to a nip at the hip and featuring a one-button closing. His women's line will concentrate on "cleanness and wit" and will feature oversize coats and jackets in wool flannel that will remind some observers of the wardrobe a flapper would haul along on her way to a little boola-boola...
Henry Kissinger was asked recently if he had ever encountered in Moscow or Washington a man, or group of men, he thought capable of pushing the mythical "button" that would send off a first salvo of missiles. Kissinger, who has spent more time than anyone else with the leaders of both nations, was silent for a few seconds. He began to chew at one of his gnawed fingernails. "You mean, is there anyone capable of knowingly bringing about a nuclear holocaust? ... I really do not know," Kissinger finally answered. "We talk about it a great deal, but it is beyond...
...Upon contended that entire outlines may be recalled from memory cells at the touch of a button, helping students cheat on closed-book exams...
Some of these successful new capitalists are tinkering innovators in blue jeans, while others are button-down bankers with M.B.A.s. Some are immigrants or the sons of blue-collar workers, while others are from old established families. Most are still little known outside their own fields. Frederick W. Smith, 37, is just another guy named, well, Smith. Yet his company, Federal Express Corp., has become a $600 million firm by delivering packages that "absolutely, positively have to be there overnight," as its ads claim. Nolan K. Bushnell, 39, invented Pong, the first video game, in 1972. He then sold...