Word: grid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some things still haven't changed in the life of a laptop user. Today's notebooks still weigh six or seven pounds and still get only two hours of battery life at most, just like the old Zenith and Grid models...
...reality shifted from the farm and the village to the impacted, simmering cities, a distinct visual aesthetic was bound to rise from American utilitarianism. It showed itself earliest--and most dramatically--in the art where science, material and common social needs intersected: architecture. Its great expression was the iron grid, which begat the skyscraper. The technology of cast-iron joists and columns as the skeleton of a multistory building had come from Europe, but it mutated and ramified in the U.S., especially in New York City. There early architects like Daniel Badger (1806-84) popularized it and crossed it with...
...though the Defense Fund logo--a map-like street grid with an arrow shooting upward--may imply a single direction for Harvard Square, local business people and residents will doubtless continue to be divided in their support for the group...
...disappointed the council has not acted," said Louise Dunlap, another participant in the protest, who criticized the council's "grid-lock...
...could let thousands of such harebrained Web schemes bloom. Take Worbble, a multiplayer word game created by Headgames Inc. of Edmonton, Alberta, that is set to hit the Web next week. From five to 2,000 players at once will look for words hidden in a 3-by-3 grid; the first player to find each word will win $10 to $60. The entrance fee: one buck. The currency: CyberCoin. "The product fits our marketing strategy like a glove," says Headgames president Ray Speichert...