Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world's chess champion, and the IBM 360 mainframe still dominated the computer industry. It was designed to have a useful life of three years, at most. Yet today, after a quarter-century, when Fischer has disappeared from the chess scene and the IBM 360 is merely a nostalgia item on display at Boston's Computer Museum, the doughty little spacecraft Pioneer 10 is still plugging along...
Anyone who thinks electronic data storage is going to render print obsolete in the near future should consider Grove's Dictionary of Art, a 5-ft.-long shelf of 34 dark green-bound bricks of scholarship with a 720,000-item index, just published at the rebarbative price of $8,800 and worth every penny. This is, of course, the sister publication to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which, almost since its publication in 1878, has reigned unchallengeably as the authoritative work in its field. After the relentless barrage of propaganda about information that has been growing...
These machines will not be used full-time in all the houses. Instead, they will be programmed to ask specific questions when HDS needs student feedback on a particular menu item or meal...
...looks like the engagement between Gary Oldman and Isabella Rossellini is off. Gregory Mosher, a theater director and producer of American Buffalo, is saying that he and Rossellini are now an item. Reps for the actress, whose former loves include Martin Scorsese and David Lynch, refused to comment (and slammed down the phone...
...Your item on Pennsylvania representative Bud Shuster, chairman of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure [NOTEBOOK, Sept. 30], contained numerous errors, the most egregious of which was the allegation that an amendment to the House Coast Guard reauthorization bill would "shield cruise-line companies from lawsuits by women who are raped aboard their ships." This is absolutely false. The House bill does no such thing. In fact, it expressly protects the right to sue if there is substantial physical injury, the threat of such injury or an intentional act. Moreover, Congressman Shuster's position on this issue has been...