Word: etching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Transformers--in short, no place for the innocent. What could be more embarrassing than to have the old folks, however well intentioned, come home with the wrong stuff! Remember what happened when you sent them shopping for video games a few years ago, and they returned with an Etch-A-Sketch? What they need is at least three hours in front of the tube on a Saturday morning. If they balk, tell them that you're appearing in one of the commercials, or that your friend Freddie's wealthy dad, Mr. ceo, watches every Saturday to pick up business tips...
Parents who are shocked by their children's Pentagon-size procurement plans should take heart. Many simple, inexpensive toys have persevered over the years. Etch-A-Sketch costs only $9, compared with $3 when it was born 25 years ago. Slinky ($1.59), the coiled spring that walks down stairs, sells at the rate of 3 million annually after 40 years on the market. The tough question is whether Stinkor will still be around years from...
...deathbed was a kind of proscenium, from which the personage could issue one last dramatic utterance, full of the compacted significance of his life. Last words were to sound as if all of the individual's earthly time had been sharpened to that point: he could now etch the grand summation. "More light!" the great Goethe of the Enlightenment is said to have cried as he expired. There is some opinion, however, that what he actually said was "Little wife, give me your little...
...that wanted to ship the device to West Germany. U.S. Customs in Washington confirmed that the document was a fake. Agents began watching the officers of the Denver concern, Norman Cormerford and Bruce Adamski, who had ordered a $54,000 krypton laser from another manufacturer. That device, used to etch computer microchips, was also bound for West Germany...
High-technology entrepreneurs like to boast that their business is nonpolluting and environmentally sound. But every industry carries environmental risks, and electronics is no exception. The manufacture of computer chips, for example, requires acid baths (to etch microscopic circuits onto tiny ceramic wafers) and vats of industrial cleaning fluids (to wash away extraneous specks). And where there are powerful chemicals, waste-storage difficulties are not far behind...