Word: digesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What about American pride? "The only downside is the sentimental loss," says David Lachenbruch, editorial director of New York-based Television Digest. "But this is a worldwide market. People don't know where their TV sets come from. Their picture tube may come from the U.S., the circuit board may be from Malaysia, the transistors may come from Japan, and the set may have been assembled in Mexico. Consumers won't notice much difference from this deal." They're probably too spaced out by that Zenith invention, the remote control...
...whole society--our attention span," he said. "With basketball you only need to see the last two minutes. In football, you only have to see it once a week and then you can drink your 12 Budweisers and go back to work on Monday--baseball you have to digest...
...dilemma in hard science classes seems fairly easy to solve: don't hold class and don't assign new material during reading period. Allow students to digest the old lectures instead of having to continue attending 9 a.m. classes and frantically trying to assimilate new concepts in the days before the exam...
...apologize profusely for the embarrassing situation she had found herself in, I (being the gentleman that I am) mentioned to her that we had not found any of her clothes. Her response.? She didn't bat an eye. "I know," she said. That was a hard one to digest. Nevertheless, when she asked to borrow the plaid shirt and some shoes, we politely agreed. So, she finally went on her merry way, wearing nothing but Peter's now famous shirt, her sweater wrapped around her waist and a pair of my roommate' size 12 flip-flop sandals. You really...
...read my question about readership in more than one way. It was clear the magazine meant more to her than research--she had too many copies of the same magazine, and her copying was too earnest. Then again, she might have mistaken me for a regular reader of the Digest, and decided there was nothing to talk about. Hey! I was only doing research...