Word: oven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans are hooked on speed. Not the drug variety, mind you, but the overnight delivery kind. Like the microwave oven and the videocassette recorder, air packages have become such a convenience that people now wonder how they ever got along without them. Overnight delivery is also an exploding, $5 billion-a-year business. One of the fly-by-night companies, Emery Air Freight, ships Cabbage Patch Kids for Coleco, couture dresses for Bloomingdale's and personal computers for IBM. During the Christmas season, the boom time for shippers, Federal Express will carry almost 500,000 parcels daily. Last week...
...continually accosted by WHRB's signal. The WHRB broadcast comes in as background music to any radio station, record, or tape that we try to listen to on our stereos. The tunes from the top of Holyoke Center (where WHRB's) antenna is) even invade our television and toaster oven...
Theirs was an open world of new sciences and new wonders of technology; experiment lured them to try anything new. That might be a foreign car, a beeping microwave oven, a computer incomprehensible to oldsters, a simple word processor or advanced data base access that gave new tools to leadership. Their social values were different too. They found living together, man and woman, without marriage unobjectionable; the Pill had divorced sex from commitment. They were likely to be tolerant of homosexuals; they were tolerant of women in the workplace. To reach them politics had to offer something...
Madison is content with his life, in spite of its negatives. The pay-$26,000 a year-is not all that much, but it's enough to get by and he has just bought Nancy a microwave oven. This year he built a deck on the back of their home where they enjoy cool summer evenings. Besides, the alternatives seem unacceptable. Madison hates cities, and traffic makes him irritable. "I love the freedom," he says. "I think I've got the best job there...
Sears has 366 buyers and 302 assistant buyers, each assigned to a Sears product line, to watch over its purchases. Department 622, for example, is cooking-center appliances. Five buyers deal with three rangemakers, two dishwasher sources, one garbage-compactor company and one microwave-oven maker...