Word: spin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...settlements separated from the prosperity of white South Africa. Honed into a humming, exuberant whole by Playwright-Director Mbongeni Ngema, they have turned convention on its head with a triumphant spirit and rollicking rhythm that transcend politics. In its ninth month, the show is a sold-out hit, readying spin-offs for Tokyo, London and Kingston...
Instead of pretending that Radcliffe is representative of women students here, administrators should be willing to spin off their institution into the only niche it is qualified for: as a preeminent women's research center...
Meanwhile, the technology continues to spread. Rods and reels now sport built-in microcomputers and liquid crystal display screens. Ryobi America of Bensenville, Ill., for example, makes a $95 bait-casting reel with a computer that monitors the spool's rate of spin during casts and adjusts it as necessary to keep the line from getting snarled. Daiwa of Garden Grove, Calif., sells a $100 spinning reel with a screen that tells how far the line is cast and how fast it is reeled in. The $695 Cannon Digi-Troll, sold by Michigan-based S & K Products, not only drops...
...annual production of chickens from the current 500 million to 5 billion by the early 1990s. Starting next June, the growing legion of Soviet personal-computer users will be able to catch up on everything from software to peripherals in a new quarterly called PC World USSR, a spin-off of Massachusetts-based IDG Communications' PC World that will incorporate articles written by Soviet technical journalists...
...betting heavily on a radical-looking new engine called the UDF, for "unducted fan." With 16 curved fan blades that spin in the open air, the engine looks like a food processor but produces a fuel saving of 40%. McDonnell Douglas has flight-tested the UDF on the prototype for its next midrange plane. But perhaps GE's moment of poetic justice really came last May, when Northwest Airlines, the diehard Pratt buyer, decided to buy 120 of the CFM56 engines. That must have prompted a few smiles at the light-bulb company...