Word: cataloger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Caplan helped shape the discussion that followed. For example, although Hall's technique cannot produce more than two or three clones of any embryo, several stories written about his experiment included the scenario, put forward by Caplan and other ethicists, in which an infertility clinic offers prospective parents a catalog filled with children's photographs. Below each picture is a report on the child's academic and social achievement. Couples could choose from among the pictures, receive a frozen embryo, and then raise that child -- not a sibling or near relative -- but an exact genetic duplicate...
...have to miss his favorite shows. Soon Schaeffer was selling solar panels to his fellow urban refugees at a time when, he recalls, "only dope growers could afford them." Today Schaeffer's beard has become a white goatee, and his Real Goods Trading Co. has blossomed into a catalog operation that is the country's largest retailer of home solar equipment. The growth of Real Goods -- sales have jumped from $29,000 in 1986 to $10 million this year -- is a small but sharp tremor along the shifting tectonic plates of America's energy landscape...
...where there is little government help, the Real Goods catalog has become the bible of America's environmentally aware set. With a circulation of 400,000, the catalog offers everything for the energy-efficient home, including composting toilets, solar radios and wind generators in addition to solar equipment. Hot-selling items include fold-up solar panels the size of a briefcase that can power laptop computers. Technicians at Real Goods headquarters in Ukiah, California, stand ready to handle customers' questions and help plan alternative energy systems over the phone...
...play attacks every current issue head on, but it deals with such issues as if they were quite naturally part of any family's history. Treatment of the aged, parent-child relationships, therapy, politics, senility, Blackness, gayness, economics, education, abuse, dreams, gender, humor, sex--the play is a veritable catalog of contemporary matters, a tapestry of American family life. Amidst all the tensions, the clearest one developed is that of mother-daughter relationships...
...facilitate the process, prospective clients are provided with a catalog of donors listing basic information, such as ethnicity, height and education. Once clients have narrowed down their choices, they can request more information...