Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boss's first choices stick. That was surprising enough for an Administration-to-be that boasts it will bring efficient business-management techniques to Government. But it was even more surprising because Reagan was known to have decided on his initial top choices at meetings with his California kitchen cabinet before Thanksgiving, providing ample time to notify and check out the chosen...
...down a the summer ranges. But now he rides in a Ford pickup, with a CB radio crackling away. He relies on machines - swathers, balers and stackers - to get the hay in. He is constantly on the phone to his accountant in Helena, and spends hours hunched over the kitchen table with his pocket calculator. "Ranching is a lot, lot more than raising cattle nowadays," says Hanson. "It involves accounting, mechanics, sophisticated farming . . . and luck...
...easy chair and a small desk provide the room's only furnishings; two Chinese scrolls dominate the otherwise blank beige walls. A radio plays soft classical music. Zhao's private quarters are similarly sparse--a night table, a chest of drawers and a neatly made bed. In the kitchen, where Zhao stands over the stove cooking lunch for his guest, there is little but the essentials. A small table covered with an oil cloth (and a glass bowl holding seven oranges and a package of Beechnut gum) serves for a dining room...
...Fredkin of M.I.T. visualizes the household robot as a creature that could not only do all the chores but also chase away burglars, "preferably by crouching in a dark corner and growling like a large dog." But does the ordinary homeowner want to pay $50,000 to get the kitchen sink cleaned up? "Actually, homes are a complicated environment for robots," says one expert in Washington. "You'd have to build a robot that is 100 times more complicated than today's industrial robots for one-tenth the cost...
DIED. George Raft, 85, actor who epitomized the tightlipped, coolly menacing tough guy in such films as Each Dawn I Die (1939) and Mr. Ace (1946); of emphysema; in Los Angeles. A grade-school dropout who grew up in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, Raft took jobs as a prizefighter, a baseball player and an exhibition dancer before he was discovered by a director at Hollywood's Brown Derby restaurant and won the movie roles that led to his breakthrough in Scarface (1932). In his later years his career lagged, and he was barred from...