Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lites chain of fast-food restaurants seemed like a surefire formula for success in the health-conscious '80s. Its menu was designed for the slender set, featuring such fare as vegetarian pita-bread sandwiches, diet cheeseburgers, frozen yogurt and light beer. The chain grew from one Atlanta outlet in 1981 to about 100 restaurants in 19 states last year. But now D'Lites may be down to its final few bites. Company President Jefferson McMahon, a former Arby's executive who was hired only last November to tighten up D'Lites' management, abruptly quit the top job last week...
...killing the shuttle astronauts. That, at least, is what most Americans have believed for the past six months. Last week NASA revealed the chilling truth: at best, the crew of the doomed shuttle knew, if only for a few seconds, that something was terribly wrong. At worst, they remained conscious for two minutes and 45 seconds, until the crew compartment, still largely intact, smashed into the Atlantic...
...Joseph Kerwin, director of Space and Life Sciences at the Johnson Space Center, wrote in last week's report, "The forces on the orbiter at breakup were probably too low to cause death or serious injury . . . the crew possibly, but not certainly, lost consciousness in the seconds following orbiter breakup." The maximum acceleration forces felt by the astronauts as their cabin was blown away from the explosion--estimated at 12 to 20 Gs, or 12 to 20 times the force of gravity--were "quite brief," Kerwin added, and "survivable." Even if the sealed crew compartment had ruptured and depressurized...
Experts question, however, whether bargain-conscious consumers will flock to an improved IBM PC. They feel that Big Blue may have to pare prices even further before many buyers will forsake the inexpensive IBM look-alikes. Boot up and watch the results on the screen of your choice...
...interested in, but usually aren't. Some feminists see porn as repellent but harmless masturbatory material for shut-ins, or as an expression of anxiety by males who are threatened by the women's movement. But some of the more militant feminists take a darker view: porn is a conscious assault against women, comparable to antiblack and anti-Semitic literature. "Pornography is virulent propaganda against women," says Author Susan Brownmiller. "It promotes a climate in which the ideology of rape is not only tolerated but encouraged." In her book Pornography, Andrea Dworkin calls violence "the prime component of male identity...