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...solid-state electronic technology that drastically reduced the price and bulk of calculators is now shaking up the watch industry-and producing a trend that defies both inflation and recession. "Quartz" timepieces powered by one-year silver oxide batteries came on the market in 1970, but as late as 1973 yearly sales of the devices were only 176,000. Then last year, despite a 12% rate of national inflation, manufacturing economics enabled sellers to mark down price tags from an average $118 to about $95, and volume jumped to 650,000 even as the recession deepened. Tom M. Hyltin, president...
...CHINESE word for jade, was applied to a variety of stones, all extremely hard, which were shaped and polished by the slow and painstaking process of grinding down with an abrasive, usually quartz, sand and water. Nephrite, the material most commonly used in the early periods, takes on a smooth, oily luster and can possess an extraordinary range of colors. The bright green, glassy jadeite, the substance most people think of when they think of jade, was not used extensively until the 18th century. Neither substance is indigenous to China; nephrite had to be imported from East Turkestan and Siberia...
...klieg lights were used. But the quartz lamps were strong enough to cause some committee members and spectators-and even one TV cameraman-to wear tinted glasses...
...Carpenter Center has an exhibit of 60 million-year-old crystals from India. The rocks are for sale and you can choose from such exotic minerals as Stilbite bow ties, Mesolite or Okenite, either furry or on Quartz. Even if you're not in the rock market, the shapes and colors of these stones merit looking...
...meaning Useful to Aten. Women's Lib would have loved him: he gave equal billing, in bas-relief and statuary, to his Queen, Nefertiti. She was portrayed in the sleek drapery she might actually have worn, one shoulder bare, a clasp under her right breast. In dark red quartz, the Queen's torso, on loan from the Louvre, is one of the beauties of the exhibition...