Word: stainlessness
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...disappeared; John Howell's brides still pose in front of windows draped in velvet, or parade on polished marble in front of elegant settees. But more and more, as Bachrach says, "The upper middle class kids are turning away from wanting formal portraits. They want only candids and stainless steel. It is the ethnic groups who now want the formal portraits and silver." One class aspires to the values of another and imitates them, changing the symbols they adopt even as they acquire them...
...jargon the nights the network swamps the ratings-are not much different from the other networks' fare. ABC's top shows are only too familiar comedies such as Happy Days and its offspring Laverne and Shirley, sci-fi fantasies like The Six Million Dollar Man, from whose stainless-steel rib was cloned the Bionic Woman, and a lineup of crime that includes Starsky and Hutch and S. W.A. T. ABC has placed at least four shows in the top ten since the start of the second season...
...wearer to add, subtract, divide and multiply. It can calculate figures up to 999 billion, and has a memory bank. Pulsar will manufacture only a limited number of the solid-gold, 22-key calculator watches at $3,950 each. Next year the Pennsylvania-based company will market a stainless steel model priced at "under...
...fasteners through the skin in the stump. (The buttons can permanently protrude through the skin without promoting infection because they are coated with pyrolytic carbon,* which Mooney says forms an antibacterial seal.) The doctors connected two of the buttons to the arm's median and ulnar nerves with stainless-steel coils, and wired the third button to another carbon plug that serves as a ground. They then connected all buttons to wires in the prosthesis itself, linking them to sensors in the hand. To operate the arm and its hand properly, Hilton moves his remaining arm muscles selectively; their...
...have been in many cities in Russia and have noticed thousands of his comrades with teeth capped, all in white metal (probably stainless steel). There will always be haves and have nots...