Word: conveyor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...digits of the ZIP code, which is then translated into a bar-code symbol for sorting mail by carrier route. With no way to slow down the machine, the clerk is like Lucille Ball in her comic routine at a candy factory. One moment, Lucy is standing at the conveyor belt blithely wrapping individual candies; the next she is stuffing unwrapped chocolates under her hat, down her dress and into her bulging mouth. Fudge caramels spill onto the floor. Lucy is fired...
...Chaplin homage were priceless), Ball rehearsed every sequence obsessively. Yet when the cameras were rolling she made each gesture look spontaneous, each wisecrack seem an ad lib. Memorably, Lucy and her sidekick Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance) took a job wrapping chocolates; as the candies hurtled past on a conveyor belt, the hapless duo tried to keep pace by stuffing half of them into their mouths. Seeking to emulate a pioneer woman, Lucy opened an oven to remove freshly baked bread -- and was pinned against the sink by a loaf 8 ft. long. At long last hired for a commercial...
MORE recently, my night-owl habits that often bring me to the Winthrop dining hall have brought me into more frequent contact with Harvard's rat community. The record for simultaneous observation now stands at three: one on the Coke machine and two on the conveyor belt for dirty trays. The scary thing is that where the rats once ran at my presence, they are becoming bolder with each passing...
...possible war crimes in the Kozara campaign, in which an estimated 60,000 Yugoslav civilians died. It could also give the lie to Waldheim's steadfast denial that he participated in atrocities, and would indicate, as a Western diplomat put it, that Waldheim was "part of the conveyor belt that committed them...
...symbolically significant retrenchment took place last month, when Westinghouse Electric sold off part of its money-losing Unimation robotics division. The buyer: Prab Robots, a small Michigan-based manufacturer of industrial robots and conveyor machines. Westinghouse's 1983 purchase of Unimation for $107 million marked Big Business's arrival in robotics; IBM, Bendix and General Electric soon followed. Unimation, founded in 1959, was a robotics pioneer. Its first product was an $18,000 Unimate machine used by General Motors to load forged dies at a New Jersey auto-assembly plant. As recently as 1981, Unimation made 45% of all robots...