Word: plates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...special meals" that can be ordered in advance and at least stand a chance of being fresher and better prepared. The major carriers offer as many as 18 alternative menus, including kosher, Hindu, vegetarian, high protein, no salt, low calorie, low cholesterol, diabetic and children's. American's seafood plate is particularly popular among veteran flyers. Special meals cost the companies more because they require special handling and are not mass produced. Says San Francisco businessman David Kliman: "It allows me to choose what to eat rather than have it just dished...
...many parents, dinnertime is too often a series of exhausting skirmishes with small children who refuse to finish their spinach or salad. Invariably, the parental argument is: "Eat it. It's good for you." This week a new study charges that all too often what is on the plate or in the glass may not be good for you at all. In fact, reports the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental group based in New York City, farm produce sold in U.S. supermarkets and greengroceries may contain so much pesticide that it poses a serious hazard to the health...
...stands in her kitchen, peels and slices potatoes, heats a dinner plate in the oven and talks to the wall. Sometimes she reminisces -- about being treated as dumb in high school, about the embarrassing things her son did as a schoolboy, about early married days when love was young and romance was in the air. Mostly, though, she complains. About her stodgy husband's indifference, her grownup daughter's condescension, her neighbor's one-upmanship, and the cumulative tedium of a life in the kitchen of her tastefully conventional house in Liverpool...
...first time I hit the pipe, I thought, 'Wow! Home run!' " says Rodgers, a beautiful but hardened 29-year-old former dealer who is pregnant with her eighth child. Beneath her gold-tinged curls, a small metal plate covers a hole smashed in her skull with a board swung by an angry boyfriend. Her dark eyes glitter when she speaks of crack. Then she looks weary, confused and angry. "When I came here, I figured I'd get a place to sleep and some food, and then split and get an abortion and get high once in a while...
When Sony Chairman Akio Morita unveiled in 1981 a prototype of the first camera to capture images on electronic sensors rather than on film, he billed it the greatest breakthrough since Daguerre's silver-coated copper photographic plate. With Sony's still-video camera, photographers could instantly display their snapshots on ordinary TV screens. But when it finally came out in 1987 with a price tag of about $7,000, the product did not exactly overwhelm the marketplace. Except in a few specialized applications in business and journalism, the filmless camera virtually disappeared...