Word: mats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urban Americans is that most of them have had their homes broken into-or know someone who has. Burglaries rank first among all U.S. crimes, and fewer than a third of them are ever solved. Fed up with being victimized, apprehensive homeowners and apartment dwellers are replacing the welcome mat with an arresting array of security devices and services. Unwanted visitors now run the risk of being temporarily blinded by intense lights, deafened by screaming alarms, stung by electric fences or sprayed with tear gas. For the fledgling industry that supplies this security, the wages of fear are handsome. Sales...
...three kinds of waves: ultrasonic, light and microwave. When anything disturbs the waves given out by the sensors, the circuit is broken and the alarm is tripped. The sensors can be placed anywhere: in an electric socket, on a tabletop, at a window sill, under a door mat, and even in special wires of a flyscreen...
...filled it with tirades against U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and the "felonious and stupid horde" of British and French government figures. A devout Moslem who prays so often and so intensely that he has developed a mark on his forehead where it touches the prayer mat, Sadat was later made secretary-general of the Islamic Congress, an organization of Islamic nations. Because he was an avid Ping Pong player, he was named chairman of the African Union for Table Tennis...
...called the Trim Twist Exercise Jogger ($9.95) forces runners' knees up, and supposedly provides the equivalent of one mile of jogging in only six minutes of use. The Indoor Jogger ($134) keeps the old legs going on alternately rising and falling platforms, while the Treadmill ($235), a rubber mat on rollers with sidebar support, actually records the footage covered, if not inches lost. Gyrogym's Smartbel ($59.50), a 2-lb. dumbbell "with a mind of its own," generates surprisingly strong gyroscopic forces that cause the user to exert himself just as much as he would with...
...bought export growth largely at the price of skimping on internal investment in housing, roads and pollution control. The country's industrial pollution is perhaps the world's worst. Says Nippon Steel's Nagano: "We need more roads, harbors, bridges, housing. People are living two families to a six-mat (9 ft. by 12 ft.) room...