Word: pt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tulsa-based StairMaster company pioneered the stair-climbing machine. The first model looked like a three-step escalator, and the steps revolved like a treadmill. But people found it hard to keep up with the machine, and only the superfit mastered it. In 1986 StairMaster introduced the 4000 PT, which was simpler to use. Exercisers push a pair of bicycle-like pedals that move up and down instead of in circles, and a computerized screen gives such data as the number of "flights" climbed and the "distance" traveled. Fans say they can burn off 10% more calories on stair machines...
...subsidiary Life Fitness put out its Lifestep model for health clubs. It has large, easy-to-move pedals and an advanced computer screen that tells users how many calories they are burning at any given moment. The price: $3,395, in contrast to $2,195 for the StairMaster 4000 PT...
...room is a dirty trick. But some enterprising Coloradans are striking back at would-be tree snatchers with a pungent recipe: fox urine, a drop or two of skunk essence and glandular extracts from cats, ferrets or muskrats. Sprayed on evergreens, the Scrooge Christmas Tree Protector, at $6 per pt., raises a stink to warn off tree rustlers. If a "Scrooged" tree is moved into a heated house, the putrid perfume gets really intense. How long before the scent wears off? Says Scrooge creator Major Boddicker: "For sure, by spring it'll be gone...
...camera, and the American people, while Nixon addressed himself to Kennedy, as a pre-video debater would. Some had thought the 43-year-old Democrat a depthless rich-boy dreamboat who missed too many votes in the Senate. His only previous executive experience ended with his getting his PT boat sawed in half by a Japanese destroyer. But the first debate established him in the public mind as at least the equal of the two-term Vice President...
Scoring Player TD PAT/1 PAT/2 FG Pt s Bruce Jacob 0 25-25 0-0 5 40 Dave Bunning 6 0-0 0-0 0 36 Bob Glatz 5 0-0 0-0 0 30 Tony Hinz 5 0-0 0-0 0 30 Neil Phillips 2 0-0 0-0 0 12 Brian Barringer 2 0-0 0-0 0 12 Kent Lucas 2 0-0 0-0 0 12 Mark Blasetti 2 0-0 0-0 0 12 Tom Yohe 1 0-0 0-1 0 6 Mike Hirshland 1 0-0 0-0 0 6 Team Safety...