Word: stapler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HAVE YOU GOT A LICENSE TO OPERATE THAT STAPLER? A U.S. firm that wanted to install photocopiers was told to obtain a special permit from the local fire department. When the same company tried to order typewriters, recalls its office manager, "the Soviets said, 'We can't get those. We'll do that next year...
Some scam artists pitch legitimate-sounding items over the phone at plausible prices, then send products that bear little resemblance to the descriptions. "Car phones," for example, turn out to be cheap telephones in the shape of a car. One "sewing machine" looks more like a stapler, and the "piano" fits in the palm of your hand. "Home stereo entertainment systems" turn out to be tiny radios, and "satellite dishes" look suspiciously like Chinese woks...
...KILL HIRSCH. Animal-rights activists have also launched at least two unsuccessful legal efforts to revoke the company's license to use live animals. According to Hirsch, U.S. Surgical uses hundreds of dogs a year to train doctors and the company's own salesmen with the high-speed surgical staplers it manufactures. The trainees practice by stapling multiple surgical incisions on anesthetized dogs, after which the animals are destroyed. Hirsch insists there is no substitute for live animals in the training program. "A dead dog doesn't bleed," he says. "You need to have real blood-flow conditions...
...care) Suites on Nob Hill provides so many perks and useful items that its guests hardly need to leave the suite to hold meetings with colleagues, entertain clients and relax after hours. Each den has reference books and a desk filled with such basic work materials as tape, scissors, stapler and an electric pencil sharpener. A small library of movies and music is tucked into a cabinet with a VCR and compact- disc player. The T.L.C. suites also have kitchens with dishwashers and well- stocked refrigerators...
...equally dedicated inventor of the device, Dr. Robert Jarvik, 36, was also present. The son of a doctor, Jarvik designed his first medical invention, a surgical stapler, while still in high school. His interest in the heart was prompted by his father's battle with cardiac disease. A spare-time sculptor, Jarvik was able to combine his artistic and medical interests as a design engineer at Utah's artificial-organ program beginning in 1971; he earned his medical degree there...