Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ergonomic design of the iMac is also faulty. The round mouse, while innovative, is uncomfortable. It does not fit in the palm of the user's hand and is therefore harder to control. The keyboard also has problems. The keys seem too crammed together, and the arrow keys are too small. Furthermore, the keyboard does not have all the keys of the more-standard extended keyboard. A user may adjust to these differences quickly and possibly even find them comfortable. However, most first-time users grumble about the unfortunate design...
...holidays are brutal," says Flo Mondanaro, a third-grade teacher in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., who is trying to curb an expensive Beanie Baby craze in her classroom. "But the issue of kids' understanding the value of a dollar comes up year round...
...something free and plentiful, he opened O2, an oxygen bar, which offers patrons a mouthful of oxygen-enriched air for $13 a hit (laced with lemon or lime, it costs an extra $2). Brilliant as it is, it's not as good an idea as the SunSpot, a round towel on which beach goers could rotate themselves to remain in the sun's direct light throughout the course of the day. Sadly, the towels never caught on, nor did the all-hemp suit Harrelson had designer Giorgio Armani create for the 1997 Oscars. Undeterred, Harrelson unveiled the Headwaters Hiker earlier...
...next contender was Matt Cooper of Newsweek, the odds-on favorite to win (though, having actually performed at the Improv, he was regarded the way Soviet-bloc Olympians used to be: as suspiciously professional). The round, bald Cooper suggested that Al Gore might try to copy Bill Clinton's formula for success and have an affair, then dismissed it with a riff on the media's skeptical reaction. "How do we know?" he had scornful reporters saying. "There's no DNA on the dress! Prove it!" Alone among the contestants, Cooper could do passably good imitations, including of Clinton...
...next day. So thenext day I went in the backstage door and walkedthrough the back hallway into the Met. There'snothing I could have done that would have moreimpressed me more at that time in my life. Atlunchtime we all went to the cafeteria and sat atthis 10-person round table. There were all thesefamous singers at the table and talking over me--Icouldn't eat my sandwich because I was sooverwhelmed by the supreme talent of these greatmusicians. This was my first taste of what wasgoing on backstage. When I came back for Act IIthe next day, they...