Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dining services employee was injured last night when his hand became caught in an electric door in the Kirkland House basement...
...Harvard University Police responded to a call that a man was caught in a "grinding machine" at 80 JFK St. Upon arrival, police found a Harvard employee with his hand caught in the side of an electric garage door...
...heart of all such homes is a small computer that can link any number of kitchen appliances, security devices, and TV and stereo components. That computer can receive signals from telephones, hand-held controllers or touch- sensitive video screens. One tap on the screen of a typical system brings up a schematic diagram of the house. Another tap produces a display of the air temperature in every room. By selecting from a series of menu choices, the homeowner can tell the house to heat the bedrooms to a comfy 72 degrees F while leaving the rest of the rooms...
...wall socket in the kitchen. Then he or she could set the oven temperature and its start and stop time by using a CEBus controller. That could be a telephone linked to the house's electrical system, a home computer plugged into a wall socket or a remote hand-held controller that beams infrared rays to an outlet. Last week Bell Atlantic announced plans to test a new system that uses standard phones to control a wide variety of household functions...
...Criticism, particularly of her husband, moves her to anger, as it did in 1984, when she suggested to reporters questioning the Bushes' wealth that a word that rhymes with rich might be an appropriate label for Geraldine Ferraro. She can cut off an interview with a wave of the hand, having been burned once too often by those who talk sweetly but interview harshly (as when Jane Pauley asked her, "Your husband is a man of the '80s, and you're a woman of the '40s. What do you say to that...