Word: cartful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intense academic environment, libraries are transformed into the swingin' singles scene. While casually browsing over a book cart, Gray Professor of Systematic Botany and Kirkland House Master Donald Pfister came across more than just his required reading. He was a graduate student in mycology and Catherine, his wife and co-master, was part of the library staff at Cornell, Professor Pfister relates, "we saw each other in the library, we were going out, and we got married...the rest is history." No need for extended volumes on this relationship...
...card receipts. An infrared or microwave ``interrogator'' could register each consumer as soon as he or she enters a store and be ready with account information when the time comes to pay. Supermarket futurist Gary Lind, a partner at Arnold Ward Studios/Lind Design in Hempstead, New York, envisions ``intelligent carts'' that will use optical lasers to scan bar codes automatically as items are moved in or out of a shopping cart, thus enabling customers to keep a running tab. These carts might even be programmed to organize the customer's shopping expedition through the store, by scanning a handwritten list...
Lebed: This is not a proper question to ask me. Do you want me to put my cart before my horse and tell the whole world on the pages of TIME magazine what my plans...
...woman entering the Crisis Pregnancy Center, in a modern medical building in Poughkeepsie, New York, is greeted by a staff member seated behind a sliding glass window who hands her a clipboard with forms to fill out. In the bathroom, a chrome-and-glass cart holds a medicine jar full of cotton. But this is no doctor's office. The center--affiliated with the Christian Action Council's Care Net, a nonprofit organization based in Sterling, Virginia--has no staff members with medical training. Rather, any woman who drops by is offered a free over-the-counter pregnancy test...
...putting the cart before the horse,"said Pete Jeffries, spokesperson for Rep. BillEmerson (D-Mo.). "Right now we're holdinghearings; we want to hear the testimony from thevarious witnesses...