Word: starks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stark contrast to Allen-Bradley assembly operations elsewhere in the same building, where some 1,650 workers still put products together largely by hand, Department 260 is run by 14 people. Six of those are white-coated attendants who man the floor's 26 machine stations, clearing equipment jams and feeding the machines' voracious appetites for raw materials. Department 260 is what engineers call a CIM plant, for computer-integrated manufacturing. Computers, from programmable controllers on the floor to a large IBM 3090 Sierra mainframe across the hall, tell the machines how to fashion 600 different varieties of relays...
...Indian Sun observes, "Indian men have such marvelous eyes . . . When they look at you, you can't help feeling all young and nice." Foreigners succumb to this seductive appeal at their own peril. In Passion, two British roommates take up with men they find "typically Indian." They are, naturally, stark opposites. Christine goes out with a handsome Sikh officer; Betsy has an affair with a scrawny clerk who is married, sensitive to a fault and abusive to her when the mood hits him. "I suppose all passion is unhealthy," she tells Christine, who has begun to worry about her friend...
...Sovereign, ours by Sam Goldwyn. Theirs try to be seen with the Queen, ours with Joan Rivers. What our crowd lacks in gravitas, it makes up in laughs. Nor has it produced a noticeably poorer class of peer. Both seem equally to enjoy the company of Koo Stark...
...section was piling into Lamont Library for our regularly scheduled Tuesday session, we were confronted with a stark decision. My section leader announced that today's section would be held in the newly erected shantytown, located in the Yard. Anybody who wished to come was welcome. Those who did not desire to attend the meeting could go to a make-up section which would be scheduled for them. He also said that each person's choice would in no way effect the final grades. On the surface, this decision seemed free and unpressured...
...President's point men, Secretary of State George Shultz and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, gave stark warnings last week about the Communist threat in Central America. But both also took pains not to demand the complete overthrow of a regime with which the U.S. still maintains diplomatic ties. In a speech last week, Shultz declared that Nicaragua could become "a Soviet and Cuban base on the mainland of Latin America, a regime whose consolidated power will allow it to spread subversion and terrorism throughout the hemisphere." Nevertheless, he offered a rational, carefully worded definition of the Administration's goals...