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Having infiltrated every nook, cranny and copy machine in the modern office, the electronics revolution is starting to work its magic in the workshop. Tools that date back to the Iron Age can now take advantage of two decades of technological advances, including lightweight rechargeable batteries, custom- made computer chips, liquid-crystal readouts and semiconductor sensors. Result: a new generation of smart tools that promise to bring the benefits of the computer age to those who like to work with their hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tools With Intelligence | 12/23/1991 | See Source »

...Each person needs a room of his or her own. I don't know what people think of me, but I have to have a place, a room of my own where I can go when crisis erupts. That's not necessarily a physical room, but a metaphysical nook, my own little space...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Thomas Lauderdale: High Energy Plus Fashion Sense | 11/16/1990 | See Source »

...cared about every nook and cranny of Harvard," said Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, part of the seven-member Corporation, Harvard's chief governing board. "I find it impossible to imagine Harvard without Derek...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: BOK TO RESIGN | 5/29/1990 | See Source »

...Government does not exist to pay statelobbyists, technocrats and consultants who lurk inevery nook and cranny of our state agencies...Wemust curtail government spending, but we do nothave to make people suffer," Bellotti said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Candidates Launch Key Bids for Governor | 1/5/1990 | See Source »

...Battery Park City. At lunchtime, when the famous New York pace slows to idle, the "suits" from the World Financial Center loosen their ties and go down to the river to join couples, amazed tourists and mothers with strollers. On a sun-splashed October day, this new way-downtown nook hints of the Mediterranean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Where The Skyline Meets the Shore | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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