Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want students to be able to walk up and know where the emergency button is," Bicknell said...
...extinction. Last week IBM and a group of 15 U.S. and Canadian banking behemoths, including Bank of America, Banc One and Mellon Bank, unveiled a venture that aims to provide a full range of financial services to the banks' 60 million customers at the touch of a telephone button or the click of a mouse. Called Integrion, the partnership will phase in such activities as bill paying, electronic lending and stock and bond trading beginning next year. "If we are dinosaurs," says Robert Gillespie, the chief executive of Cleveland-based KeyCorp, "then we're putting competitors on notice that...
What doctors would really like to have at their disposal is a way of preventing the brain from hitting the panic button in the first place. Researchers are studying several compounds, including calcium-channel blockers, that can slow down the metabolism of nerve tissue. The lower rate could help the brain get by on less oxygen and fewer nutrients, thereby lengthening to as much as 12 hours the amount of time doctors have to re-establish normal blood flow...
...million Americans live with pain, sometimes mild, sometimes crippling. Researchers are currently testing, in animals, a more convenient and safer way to deliver relief. Taking their cue from the birth-control implant Norplant, which is inserted under the skin and provides long-term contraceptive protection, researchers have packed a button-size insert with a powerful narcotic. Implanted under the skin, the device releases analgesic into the bloodstream continuously for three months. Tests on cancer patients will begin within a year...
...line catalog can be accessed from the comfort of one's dorm room with the touch of a button (http://www.digitas.harvard.edu...