Word: pocket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been checking the prices of some products that hardly anyone buys any more: pedal pushers, garter belts, bobby pins. Such obsolete articles were thrown out of the 400-item market basket and many newer ones substituted. The BLS shoppers will now price, for example, joggers' warmup suits, pocket calculators, birth control pills and wine...
...were in constant touch by CB radio, informing each other of the whereabouts of the roving caravans of strikers. Driver Roger Heubner, 30, had five of his eleven coal trucks burned in Boonville, Ind., in January. Last week he was carrying a 9-mm automatic pistol in his coat pocket. For Heubner, other truckers and the working coal miners, firearms had become, in effect, their union cards...
...extra $12 a week. But this modest increase in pay must be approved all the way up the line from district to regional to national headquarters of the U.S. Forest Service. Then the request must be signed by the three civil service commissioners before the ranger can pocket his $12. Quips Gran quist: "It's like fine tuning a TV with a 3,000-mile-long screwdriver...
Most of Lucas' new riches have indeed gone into his various projects rather than into his pocket, and his life has hardly changed since May 25, when Star Wars rocketed onto the screens. He still drives a 1967 Camaro, still wears the same Levi's and cords, and still walks around in the same battered shoes and sneakers. When he leaves his home in San Francisco for the Los Angeles movie labs, he stays with friends in the unfashionable San Fernando Valley, avoiding the Beverly Hills-Malibu axis as if it were enemy territory, which...
Intel's little chip had repercussions far beyond the pocket-calculator and minicomputer field. It was so small and cheap that it could be easily incorporated into almost any device that might benefit from some "thinking" power: electric typewriters with a memory, cameras, elevator controls, a shopkeeper's scales, vending machines, and a huge variety of household appliances. The new chip also represented another kind of breakthrough: because its program was on a different chip, the microprocessor could be "taught" to do any number of chores. All that had to be done was to substitute a tiny program...