Word: mass
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called cool laser, meaning that it can cut through almost any material without generating a lot of heat damage. That's just the kind of exacting low-impact tool surgeons needed to rework the delicate tissues of the eye. So a company called Summit Technology, of Waltham, Mass., dedicated itself to figuring out how to adapt the excimer laser to eye surgery. Today, Summit and another company, Visx, of Santa Clara, Calif., dominate the eye-laser industry...
...expert in this at all," admitted Kennedy Smith, sister of U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass.). "The best way to make this course interesting was to bring people in who did know...
...because of all he'd invested in the new store, Barsamian could no longer afford to keep either store running, though he said his Mass. Ave. location attracted between 8,000 and 10,000 customers per week...
...February of this year, he filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Last Wednesday, Barsamian's landlord for the Mass. Ave. store took him to court and the store's status was switched to Chapter 7, or liquidation. This means the store must close and its assets will be sold...
...bottom line is that those plastic bags at the end of the checkout counter will never be filled with groceries. Customers will no longer sit at the store's granite counter, gazing out the window onto Mass. Ave. as they eat their gourmet lunches...