Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last February IBM was embarrassed by its loss of a $27 million Internal Revenue Service contract for 15,000 lap-top PCs to Zenith, a relative newcomer to the industry. In April IBM abandoned the retail computer business, selling 81 stores to NYNEX, the New York-based regional telephone company. The shops had sluggish sales in part because they offered only IBM machines, while competitors stocked a wide range of models...
...upon college education. Pundits speculate that Bennett may run for political office in 1988. Right now he's making all the right moves: his fire-and-brimstone attacks upon liberal educational values, his anti-intellectual polemic, and especially his blind and vocal allegiance to Ronald Reagan. The American people lap that stuff up. What they should demand, however, is sobriety...
...could double for his own Tussaud waxwork, is an improbable Han Solo, but he still dances like a jive Astaire and earned audible swoons from teenage girls at the premiere. The film's 3-D effects are familiar but engineered with flair: an asteroid waits to plop in your lap, Fuzzball hovers adorably over your shoulder, and Huston's tentacle talons virtually shred your shirt...
...America's Cup," the person next to me answers as I try to roll out of my chair, and then drops the grenade in my lap: "What did you do this summer...
...safety on the highways, "buckle up" may no longer be sound advice in every situation. When the National Transportation Safety Board began an investigation in 1984 on seat-belt performance, a surprising pattern emerged: backseat passengers who had used lap belts suffered more serious and fatal injuries in head-on collisions than did those with no restraints at all. The NTSB has called on the Department of Transportation to require shoulder harnesses in the backseats of new cars, a regulation that could take effect by the end of the year...