Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Food and Drug Administration has designated the cap an "investigational device." Beginning this week, caps will be available only to women enrolled in research studies. The agency notes that no major published work on the caps' safety and effectiveness has appeared since 1953. Says Dr. Lillian Yin of the FDA: "We just don't know if there will be a problem with abrasion of the cervix, and we don't know what will be the rate of infection or the long-term problem with tissue erosion." But critics charge that the FDA is being overcautious...
...most promising new keyboard is the Maltron, invented by the British team of Lillian Malt, a keyboard training consultant, and Electronics Engineer Stephen Hobday. The Maltron makes letters easier to hit by tilting the keyboard toward normal hand and body positions. More important, it saves time and motion by dividing keys into more efficient groups: 91% of the most often used letters are on the Maltron "home row," where fingertips are normally placed in touch typing, vs. 51% for the QWERTY. Under the Maltron system, hands rarely have to "hurdle" (i.e., jump upward or sideways so fingers can strike keys...
...Libyan gang. Billy, a loud, obnoxious, good ol' boy who pissed on airport runways while his brother the President piously declared: "I have never had an occasion to be embarrassed by Billy. I'm proud he's my brother." And then there was the First Mother, Miss Lillian, who after examining the products of her marriage questioned whether she should ever have abandoned her virginity...
...their last Christmas as President and First Lady, the Carters followed family holiday tradition. They cut their own tree in nearby woods, carried it home and decorated it. They spent part of Christmas Day with Miss Lillian, who is recuperating from a broken hip, and they had a big family breakfast and opened their gifts...
...commercialism, or maybe even advice from his pollsters to down-play the small-town Southern roots in favor of a homogenized national image. Certainly a home visit was a summons to pushing crowds, at least half newsmen; and resident family members found it increasingly impossible to appear downtown. (Miss Lillian: "They all wanted to touch me, and if there's anything I hate, it's being hugged and kissed by a woman.") But the peculiarly economical and decorous motions of a farming community, miles from any city, continued. And the splendid flat landscape of fields, thickets and wildlife...