Word: nascent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...here that South Boston entered the picture. The 1903 razor--the brainstorm of Brookline, Ma., resident King C. Gillette--was, according to the Gillette Corporation, the first product of its kind in the world. In the year of its introduction the nascent Gillette company sold just 51 razor sets and 168 blades at $5 a set. In 1904, however, a patent came through for the shaving device and sales took off. In 1904, Gillette opened his company's first mass-production manufacturing establishment and shipped 90,000 of his razors and a whopping 12 million of the patented matching blades...
Task force members said a principal reason for the nascent attempt at rules regulation is to provide Massachusetts's cities and towns--which by the state supreme court ruling can now ban or regulate the use of hazardous substances--with a regulatory framework in which to act if they want...
...Pennsylvania in 1973 to found the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A & M University, is a kind of underwater Indiana Jones, a wet-suit archaeologist who searches out clues to the past on the ocean bottom. The uncovering of the wreck may prove a boon to the nascent but growing field of nautical archaeology, of which Bass is a founding father. Since 1960, Bass has not only adapted the traditional archaeological surveying techniques to the seabed but also contributed to key technological advances, like an underwater "telephone booth" to help divers communicate...
Though David Wingrove has offered up a perfectly acceptable rendition of the play, he misses numerous chances to partake in Pinter's gleeful subversiveness and turn Betrayal into a work directly relevant to the thousands of nascent Harvard Yuppies trading self-conscious banalities over demitasse at Tommy's Lunch...
...sophomore year, and was replaced by the centrally funded Undergraduate Council the next fall. With student-faculty committees and the power to fund student activities, the Council earned the respect of many administrators and undergraduates. Kieval remembers March of his sophomore year, when plans for the nascent organization were placed under students' doors. "I always thought that student government was a joke," he says, adding that when he read the Undergraduate Council charter, "something in my mind clicked. I said this is it, this is good. I must get involved. This was a way for students to start expressing their...