Word: pens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's because in the 10-squareyard pen inhabited by the Redskins' offensive line, Schelerth is still an apprentice...
Each ScanFone unit, which can also function as a regular telephone, features a magnetic-stripe credit card reader and a light pen to scan bar codes. After selecting groceries, customers punch in a delivery time, run a credit card through the magnetic reader and await delivery. On the retailer's end, a computer registers the order and professional shoppers hit the aisles, instructed to select the best cuts of meat and the freshest vegetables and fruits for ScanFoners. If successful, the system is expected to serve 16 cities by June...
...laboring to create itself. Camden built everything from battleships to toilet seats, and people here claim you could find more industry per capita in these nine square miles than anywhere else in the world. This was the home of the Victor talking machine, Campbell's soup and the Esterbrook pen. In the cavernous shipyards, 35,000 men once toiled, hammering out eight vessels at a time. Bard of it all was Walt Whitman, whose spirit trembled at the call of an industrial giant that thrived on the energy, poetry and power of machines. Whitman loved the noise of Camden...
...inherently more stressful than being in a library or your own room. Besides, then you don't have to put up with that dork in the row in front of you who keeps sniffling every five seconds, or the premed behind you incessantly clicking her 20-color premed pen...
Still, nobody can match Le Pen in playing on the resentment of petits blancs (poor whites) toward the immigrants. Now he is appealing to other kinds of discontent. He is making a strong pitch to farmers worried that European integration will strip away their accustomed subsidies, and is even putting out feelers to ecological and animal-rights activists, who also have been gaining among voters bored with the mainstream parties. It is just conceivable that if the vote in the 1993 legislative elections splinters widely, a coalition strong enough to form a government could be put together only by including...