Word: maker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...highlight of the dinner was a showing of "The Longest Struggle," a documentary about the NAACP. The film's maker, television producer Tony Brown, was also on hand as a guest of the Foundation...
Another heavy-equipment maker, Caterpillar Tractor, announced last week that it may move some of its production from plants in Illinois and Iowa to factories in Western Europe. The step could mean the loss of even more Midwestern jobs...
...because there is no gravity to pull the ingredients apart. Mixed the same way, superstrong metal alloys could be made in the absence of gravity's pull. Unlike oil and vinegar, the new alloys would then stay together after their return to earth. Deere & Co., the Illinois tractor maker, is investigating the impact of zero gravity on the molecular structure of iron. That could provide clues to making it stronger on earth. The next generation of supercomputers that make billions of calculations per second may use chips that will be born in orbit. Reason: space appears...
...IMPORTANT HEALTH WARNING TO WOMEN USING AN I.U.D., proclaim the austere but imposing ads currently appearing in newspapers and magazines. The $4 million media blitz by the pharmaceutical maker A.H. Robins of Richmond represents one of the most extensive product-warning campaigns in history. The company is attempting to alert women in the U.S. who are still using the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth control device. Produced from 1970 to 1974, the I.U.D.s have been blamed for thousands of cases of severe pelvic infections, sterility and other maladies. By last week at least 400 women had followed...
...very, very bad" at drawing and says that "talent, unfortunately, is not hereditary." Nevertheless, Sophie Renoir, 20, a great-granddaughter of French Impressionist Painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, is determined to express herself. Her chosen medium is film acting (well, her great-uncle is Film Maker Jean Renoir), and her credits include The Children Are Watching, with French Heartthrob Alain Delon and a planned film this spring with Burt Lancaster. Renoir just visited New York City to preview a limited edition of 318 bronzes (initial asking price: $15,000 each) that went on sale last week after being cast from great...