Word: stereos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fire officials have not released a cost estimate of the damage, but students have reported the loss of stereo speakers, a guitar, books, furniture, mountain climbing equipment, and even an art student's portfolio...
Frederick Richmond, a wealthy white manufacturer of stereo components who represents a black and Hispanic area of Brooklyn, confessed to offering money to a 16-year-old black male youth for sex. Richmond works hard for his district, however, and uses his wealth for charitable activities there. He won re-election by beating a field of three other candidates...
...farm prices broke; farm income shriveled to $20.5 billion in 1977, and a noisy American Agriculture Movement sprang up overnight to send farmers rumbling into Washington and state capitals aboard their tractors (some cost $30,000, and a few came with air-conditioned cabs and stereo tape decks...
...moment, the work remain at the experimental level. But Dingle see many practical future applications, ranging from stereo set components that require less energy to a new generation o high-speed computers and telephone transmission systems. Even more dazzling devices may be in the offing. At present semiconductors are flat; their electrons, for all practical purposes, flow in a single plane. But with the new layering technique, Dingle foresees three-dimensional devices in which electrons flow in all directions. That could make possible even tinier circuitry that would make today's minuscule computers look like veritable dinosaurs...
...Osterberg, 35, of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, moved into a chicken coop nearly two years ago. The quarters are small (9 ft. by 12 ft.) but cheap: $40 a month for rent and electricity. Osterberg installed a glass skylight, insulation and not-so-spartan furnishings, including a stereo, color television, refrigerator, telephone, toaster oven and several Persian rugs. Says he: "Living this way makes me feel that at least I'm not part of the problem...