Word: stackful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four-inch stack of letters, which will go on reserve at Lamont Library in the next few days, contains "many helpful and informative responses, but others are too general to tell us what is really going on," Calkins said...
...Many domestic devices that use electric power may be computerized. Eventually, the household computer will be as much a part of the home as the kitchen sink; it will program washing machines, burglar and fire alarms, sewing machines, a robot vacuum cleaner and a machine that will rinse and stack dirty dishes. When something goes wrong with an appliance, a question to the computer will elicit repair instructions ?in future generations, repairs will be made automatically. Energy costs will be cut by a computerized device that will direct heat to living areas where it is needed, and turn...
...stack of documents released last week by the FBI on the Kennedy assassination is dramatic testimony to the effort needed to comply with requests under the act. Some 280 FBI agents were called in from the field this summer for "Operation Onslaught," as the project was called. In addition, 379 people are employed full time at FBI headquarters researching 16,000 similar appeals a year. Estimated cost to this one Government agency in 1977: $9 million...
...which sounds perhaps like the last days of the Roman Empire. Yet Americans are certainly eating more wisely than they did in the days when a hunk of steer and a stack of fries were the banquet supreme. Contemporary Americans favor lighter, shorter meals?a far cry from the XXVII-course banquets that forced the Romans to repair to imperial latrines to vomit between dishes ?in which every succulent leaf and crumb has been thoughtfully purchased, planned and prepared...
...Overseer said, however, that a plan to stack the board with financiers and industrialists would create an imbalance that would make the board more likely to downplay its non-fundraising functions...