Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reader of this issue of TIME will notice anything unusual about the design of the Medicine section, it is, in fact, quite special. Its look is the product of a revolutionary electronic editorial tool that computerizes the makeup of a magazine page, replacing the X-acto knife and paste pot used by almost all magazine art and layout departments...
...conservative California tycoons, including Reagan Patron Holmes Tuttle and Union Bank Chairman John Heidt. "We're doing it," said Heidt, "because we want it to be a private-enterprise situation." The menu was Reagan's favorite food from his favorite Los Angeles restaurant: Chasen's chicken pot pie and "snowballs," ice cream rolled in toasted coconut and covered with chocolate sauce...
With its round head, beady eyes and red-buttoned pot belly, it looks like an armless, three-foot-high plastic snowman. Rolling across the floor on big black wheels, it embodies one of man's most enduring dreams: the personal robot, programmed to do its master's bidding. Inside its molded skull a kind of sassy intelligence seems to be at work. "What strange-looking creatures," it intones nasally in the direction of some gawking visitors at its home base, Androbot, Inc., in Sunnyvale, Calif. "Where are your wheels...
Contrasting their increased concern for financial independence was their decreased concern for the environment and for legalizing marijuana. Cleaning up the environment was an important goal for only 23 percent of the freshman, compared to 45 percent in 1972 And only 29 percent felt that pot should be legalized, down from 34 percent last year...
Finally, upon being presented with the Pudding Pot, Spielberg commented that it was the perfect thing to put E.T.'s profit checks...