Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Valerian and Margaret do not share a bedroom. He spends most of his time in a greenhouse tending feeble plants that might flourish if left outside in the trade breezes. Ghostly pale, Margaret lies in the shade and believes that her son Michael will finally visit her. In the kitchen, Ondine, Sydney's wife, cooks Main Line specialties and fumes about the unreasonable demands of her boss's wife. Ondine also harbors a dark secret about...
Correspondent Steven Holmes, a native New Yorker, learned that a city slicker faces a language barrier in Benton County, Iowa. Says he: "When a farmer told me it cost him $10,000 to tile, I thought he was talking about his kitchen. He meant field drainage tiles." After several companies declined to discuss a possible reduction in Export-Import Bank funding, Correspondent Patricia Delaney approached J.I. Case, a construction-equipment manufacturer in her native Racine, Wis. "When Case executives tried to refuse, I asked them how they could turn down a request from a home-town girl," says Delaney...
...family's three largest investments will be its home, car and computer. With costs for the machines dropping quickly, some visionaries even foresee three computers in every home: one in the den for financial use, one in the living room for education and entertainment, and one in the kitchen for information. The current Shootout in the industry will determine whether brand names like Panasonic and IBM will soon become as common on small computers as Radio Shack and Apple...
Spectators were frisked and had to walk through metal detectors. Twice a day, dogs sniffed around for bombs. The courtroom was crammed with evidence-wigs, explosive paraphernalia, even the proverbial kitchen sink (it bore palm prints). Only one thing was missing during the six-day trial at the federal office building in Chicago: a defendant...
...other Britons were quite as unruffled. The country has been stumbling ever deeper into the throes of its worst recession since the soup kitchen days of the 1930s. Unemployment has climbed to its highest mark since the Great Depression: 2.4 million jobless, or 10% of the work force, and the grim predictions are that it could reach a watershed mark of 3 million before the end of the year. As the lines of the jobless have lengthened, businessmen as well as trade unionists have despaired. Interest rates have hit unprecedented levels...