Word: household
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...srath's housewives have most modern appliances but they seem to use them more frugally. Mrs. Szyperski figures that she spends only $12.50 a year for electricity for each person in her eight-member household. (Daytime rates in the two communities are comparable.) Such knowledge about energy costs is commonplace in Rösrath; the average housewife knows kilowatt rates as accurately as she does the size of her shoe. Some of Rösrath's residents also benefit from the kind of energy-saving measures that Carter is trying to encourage-for example, a device that stores...
...seems sophisticated compared with Demon Seed. The trouble here starts with a computer scientist (Fritz Weaver) who is just too good at his job. Down at work he has created a superbrain named Proteus. At home, he has wired up a system that takes care of most of the household chores. This leaves Julie Christie, as his wife, bored and offended to the point of asking for a divorce, especially now that their child has died of leukemia. Weaver departs, but Proteus, unknown to him, has developed a capacity to think without the aid of programmers. Inevitably, some of these...
...consistent with the ideology of this country that William Worthy isn't a household name in America," Badi G. Foster, visiting associate professor of Afro-American Studies recently told his seminar on media and political development in Afro-American communities. However Worthy's recent book, The Rape of Our Neighborhoods, may finally cause America to take notice of the 56-year old journalist who terms his political philosophy, "Anti-Colonialist, Anti-Militarist, Anti-Imperialist...
...except for a few hours each day when she undergoes physical and occupational therapy at a nearby hospital, Susan spends all her time at home. Her routine needs are met either by her husband Chris or by a nurse and a home aide who regularly visit the Foss household...
Beyond these services, the extramural-hospital system offers the stay-at-homes trained therapists and household help. Such aid is particularly important for elderly couples if, say, one partner has had a stroke and the other can no longer cope with the chores. A "meals-on-wheels" service, manned by volunteers-mainly from the Red Cross-delivers some 1,000 hot trays a day. If the patient needs help, the volunteer can quickly summon a nurse, social worker or the patient's family physician, who retains overall charge of the case. Says Susan Foss: "Five days a week...