Word: clamp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complex chemical movement, as in conventional hemodialysis, slowly begins. Toxic wastes and water from the bloodstream pass through the peritoneal membrane into the fluid. The process is allowed to continue for about five hours. Then the patient unwraps the empty plastic bag, lowers it to the floor, releases the clamp and lets the waste-laden fluid drain out of the abdominal cavity. Subsequently, a new bag of fluid is attached, and the procedure is repeated three times more at four-to eight-hour intervals every day. While the blood is being cleansed, patients can do just about anything. Morgan...
...impetus behind the new craze is an improved variety of skate. Borrowing the technology of precision ball-bearing polyurethane skateboard wheels, the new skate wheels offer the wearer an extraordinary maneuverability. Unlike the noisy, steel clamp-ons that kids used to wear, they are smooth and light, gliding over cracked pavement with silent grace and dispelling-deceptively-the fear of falling. Aficionados compare the sensation to that of skiing or surfing. The thrills are not exactly cheap: an assembled pair of wheels, skates and boots cost from $60 to $150, and customized ones can run as high...
...waters of Narragansett Bay finally begin lapping over the bubble-topped conning tower of the S 250 at Jacobson's practice site in the lee of Prudence Island, all common sense and lessons learned temporarily flee. The student has just bolted himself in with four screw bolts that clamp the bubble to the conning tower...
...example given by Watson, a former lecturer in psychology at the University of London, is the Navy's "Clockwork Orange" experiments in Naples, Italy, and San Diego: wearing a head clamp and with their eyes fixed open, so that they cannot avert their gaze, volunteers were shown gruesome films of dismemberment to break down their opposition to violence. Though the Pentagon denied conducting any such experiments, Watson thinks that his source-a Navy doctor in Naples-was telling the truth...
...hard for tax cuts. Twenty-three state legislatures have called for an unprecedented constitutional convention to weigh an amendment requiring the Federal Government to operate on a balanced budget. Limits on state and local spending have been enacted in three states (Colorado, New Jersey and Tennessee), and efforts to clamp on similar lids are under way in 19 others. And Howard Jarvis, the crusty curmudgeon who spearheaded the California tax revolt, has already been asked to carry his crusade to 40 states...