Word: tags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Senior Editor Jose Ferrer, who edited the toys stories, claims he was too busy to play, but he acknowledges that he would like to try a newfangled gun called Lazer Tag: "I was also intrigued by one toy, Spacewarp, which looks like a high-toned version of a marble game I used to love." When he was a boy, recalls Ferrer, toys were less exotic. He and his brother constructed raceways from blocks for marbles to slide down, and would play with them for hours, until their sister toddled in and knocked everything over...
...father, a Black man in his fifties, was dressed in a business suit, as were the other men in the lobby. Like the other men in the lobby, he was not wearing a name tag. A Harvard employee approached him and asked who he was and what he was doing standing in the lobby...
Still, the movie was popular enough to tag the property as a solid box- office attraction. And gradually, the films' creators managed to beam the series up to competence, even to emotional resonance. In 1982 The Wrath of Khan brought Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) back from the executive junk heap to conquer both an old nemesis and a mid-life crisis. In 1984 The Search for Spock resurrected Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) for a reunion with Kirk that was tender enough to make a Vulcan almost cry. Now comes The Voyage Home -- and a radical, canny shift of moods. This...
...managing director of Barclays National, noted that the South African firm would now be free to compete around the world with the British bank. Said he: "We are a very powerful bank, and we can continue extending our business abroad." Experts consider the bank's $116 million price tag a bargain for the South Africans. Moreover, because of tight currency rules that prohibit export of capital except at unfavorable exchange rates, the British Barclays will keep the proceeds from the sale on deposit in South Africa for at least a year...
...Georgia-based firm that makes the device. Company-sponsored studies show that the machine removes about 98% of plaque, twice as much as hand brushing accomplishes. Introduced last November and initially available only through dentists or directly from the manufacturer, Interplak is now reaching stores across the nation. Price tag: $99. Though some dentists argue that more surveys should be done and the cost is too high, others give Interplak the ultimate compliment of the profession. Says Dr. John Love of the School of Dentistry at the University of Missouri in Kansas City: "It's a very aggressive brush...