Word: fabrics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Doing the laundry is not as simple as it used to be. Many modern washers and dryers have enough time, temperature and fabric settings to confuse a test pilot. The buttons and dials can be especially daunting for people with poor vision, including many of the elderly, and Spanish-speaking Americans, some of whom cannot read English. Now Whirlpool, noting that the U.S. population includes some 28 million people over the age of 65 and about 18 million Hispanics, has become the first major U.S. appliance manufacturer to introduce a line of washers and dryers designed for those large groups...
Scobee carried his fascination with flying to his home in suburban Houston, where he lived with his wife June and their two children. He and Astronaut James van Hoften built a two-seat, open-cockpit Starduster plane and flew it cross-country. The craft, made of wood and fabric, had no radio. Reflecting on this convergence of his work and leisure pursuits, Scobee once observed, "You know, it's a real crime to be paid for a job that I have so much fun doing." For all his accomplishments in the skies, however, Scobee was scrupulously modest. "He just wasn...
...bone with blue fabric attached washed up on a beach, and medical techinicians examined it to see if it belonged to one of the seven astronauts killed in Tuesday's shuttle explosion...
...status is an accident of circumstance and, during a particular day in June, I occasionally regret the circumstance. But I neither resent, nor would I tamper with, the privileges attendant on being a member of the Class of whatever. Similarly for a variety of other "clubs" comprising the Harvard fabric. Nowadays, the exclusive character of most is premised on members sharing some particular skill--athletic, scholarly, artistic...
ALMOST INSTANTLY and most unbelievably, Harry dispenses with family life, discarding his wife of nearly thirty years, the long-suffering and fabric-softener conscious Kate (Ellen Burstyn), and his two daughters, big-mouthed Sunny, wonderfully over-played by Amy Madigan, and big-hearted Helen, quietly gushed by Ally Sheedy. Conducting himself with all the maturity of a love-sick adolescent, Harry gurgles gleefully to his lover, "It's been so long since I had somebody I wanted to please," totally overlooking the fact that just as he utters those words, his wife stays dutifully at home, either starching the collars...