Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a swimming coach decides that his team doesn't stand a chance of staying in the water with a stronger opponent, he sometimes has to stop thinking swimming and start thinking chess. Not even Yale women's swimming coach Frank Keefe's impressive display of psychological gamesmanship, though was enough to prevent Harvard from stroking to an impressive 88 61 victory Saturday in New Haven, its first ever dual meet victory over the Bulldogs...
From the start, the Apple team did almost everything right. First they redesigned the prototype into a trim, spiffy model called Apple II. Jobs insisted that the cases for the keyboard and video display be made of light, attractive plastic instead of metal. They also wrote clear, concise instruction manuals that made the machine easy for consumers to use. Sales surged from $2.7 million in 1977 to $200 million...
...rest of the powerful Harvard line up, including number-one, freshman Dave Boyurn, bounced the Engineers around in a display of complete dominance...
...these and other objects on display represent only 3% of the Smithsonian's holdings. Out of sight, filling every nook and cranny of space, is a decidedly odder assortment of things-100,000 bats (including 6,629 vampires), 2,300 spark plugs, 24,797 woodpeckers, 718,605 pieces of pottery, 16,694 baskets, 82,615 fleas, 12,000 arctic fishing tools, 14,300 sea sponges, 6,012 animal pelts, 2,587 musical instruments, ten specimens of dinosaur excrement and a male gorilla preserved in formaldehyde...
Once the inventory is complete, most of the objects not on display will be moved to a $28 million warehouse and conservation laboratory being built in Suitland, Md., six miles from the Smithsonian's main museums on the Mall near the Capitol. A new computer system will be capable of locating anything from hummingbird eggs to George Washington's egg poacher within an hour; now it takes days to find items, if they can be found...