Word: toaster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cook an elaborate snack in the toaster oven. Go out and buy extravagant ingredients if necessary. Your mind can't work well on an empty stomach...
...baseball playoffs, and you will remain eligible to talk in 10-sec. bursts or more during Monday-night football. You will cease all jokes about how I wake up in the middle of the night smelling dust, and you will learn how to work the vacuum and the toaster...
Line filters and surge suppressors ($30-$90) help take the inconsistency out of Harvard's power lines. Most computer owners could benefit from any one of these goodies, especially if they live near any large-appliances, such as laundry machines, refrigerators or even toaster-ovens...
When Suburban Parisians Jean-Francois and Catherine Mayaux ordered a Minitel plugged into their telephone line 18 months ago, they planned to use the toaster-size computer console as an electronic telephone directory. But they soon found the Minitel terminal equally convenient for paying bills, purchasing airline tickets and making theater reservations. Lately they have started shopping a la modem, issuing on-line orders for everything from foie gras to fine wines. "Each wine has a numeric code," explains Mayaux, as if buying a Burgundy electronically were the most natural thing in the world. "We punch it into the Minitel...
...Cabot House exemplifies Harvard's best buzzword--diversity. The House has an exciting mix of creative, active students and a lively tutorial and house staff...The physical facilities may soon be the best on campus (with a little luck and funding). Other favorites mentioned: the rollomatic toaster, movie nights with the VCR, good parties, and the Quad roofs and grounds as "beaches" in the spring...