Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, once the author has written his program, he usually has to find a software company willing to mass-produce and market it. The product is most often sold in the form of a floppy plastic disc the size of a 45-r.p.m. record on which the inventor's program is inscribed. All programs, however they are packaged and sold, are known as software. Programs written by independents have become the engine that drives the boom in personal computers. Unit sales of the $500-to-$12,000 desktop devices for office or home are expected to reach 1.1 million...
...some unlucky cardholders, such warnings come too late. Even if their plastic has not been stolen, they have been victims of a fraud. Lately thieves have begun getting account information by pilfering the carbon paper that is found between the pages of individual charge slips, either by combing through the trash behind elegant shops and restaurants or colluding with dishonest employees working inside. Once the account information is in hand, it is no trick to order merchandise over the phone, since this requires the presentation of neither an actual card nor a valid signature. One band of California criminals stole...
...expressed in its furniture and furnishings. The volume begins with a 1629 hooded wicker cradle, medieval in its lines, then follows the American progress from straight-backed Puritan spareness through the clotting commercial optimism and extravagance of the 19th century, and on into the 20th with its Saarinen plastic pedestal chairs and the eerie metaphysical fatuousness of Andy Warhol's wallpaper decorated with large portraits of cows' heads. Generously illustrated, with a minutely expert and civilized text...
...quietly and steadily to the hushed strains of Ravel's Bolero, DeVries made a 9½-in. incision from the breastbone to the abdomen and carefully completed the delicate task of connecting Clark to a heart-lung bypass machine that would pump and oxygenate his blood until the plastic heart was in place...
...sealed in, open the package a little, let the air out and reseal the package with some tape. Then gently hammer the cookies with something heavy to crash them until they're fine. If the package doesn't hold up, put it into another plastic bag or two, or use a paper...