Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their chemical content or price. And that, say Karen and John Hess in The Taste of America, is symptomatic of a deeper problem. As we worry about the additives we are ingesting, we have forgotten about what the chemicals were originally added to preserve. We have been weaned on Instant Breakfast, raised on Tastycakes and Big Macs, and disciplined by the threat of "no dimes for a Dairy Queen." Our "gourmet" restaurants serve prepackaged, precooked Lobster Thermidor. Our cookbooks are compendiums of corporate-test-kitchen press releases. And the average sugar consumption in America--mostly of the refined, characterless variety...
...strokes later, though, the coxes were looking each other in the eye--but only for an instant. Harvard pulled away steadily at that point and the crew decided to have a little fun. Cox Jeff Rothstein called a power ten, which put open water between the Crimson and Princeton...
...equal to total company revenues 15 years ago. American Telephone & Telegraph, which last year became the first U.S. company to earn more than $1 billion in a single quarter, did it again in the recent quarter. Earnings were $1.09 billion, up 26%. Polaroid, expected to introduce its long-awaited instant movie camera at its annual meeting this week, earned $14 million, a 33% increase...
...Says a buyer at Chicago's Marshall Field: "We are selling all we have." In Los Angeles, Designer Lore Caulfield says that demand for her slinky satin camisoles has been so overwhelming that she has had to ration them. In Palm Beach, where the Martha shop has had instant success with corselettes and camisoles, Co-Owner Lynn Manulis calls them "a very provocative above-the-table look." Joanne Stroud, professor of literature and psychology at the University of Dallas, bought two Saint Laurent corselettes. Her mother was shocked. Says Stroud: "I think she got the idea...
...portable paging device about the size of a cigarette pack, the beeper is a mini-radio receiver that puts the person carrying it on instant call from of-ficerhome or anywhere else. Short-range protobeepers were used in hospitals in the early 1960s to summon doctors. Since then beepers have spread like electronic calculators-from some 33,500 in 1965 to an estimated 800,000 today, with production still growing at about 18% a year. About 500 U.S. companies now either manufacture beepers or operate beeper networks. In most systems, the caller dials a seven-digit number that feeds into...