Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...20th century. In a mixture of utility and Middle American chic, there are gas barbecues and girdles, personal computers and auto-ignition analyzers, draperies, fake-fur coats, electric generators, two-stage oxyacetylene welding outfits, lingerie, swimsuits, exercise equipment, Franklin stoves, blood-pressure monitors, telephones, 718-piece mechanics' tool sets, portable drills and socket wrenches. Sears sells queen and worker bees, dairy and livestock equipment, horse blankets and saddles and, for $1,200, a pair of majestic swans to "transform your pond or lake into an enchanting, romantic setting...
...shuttle flight next October she would become the first woman to walk in space. Last week, however, Soviet Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya, 36, beat her to it. Accompanied by the mission commander, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Savitskaya spent 3 hr. 35 min. outside the Salyut7 space station, wielding an experimental tool to cut and solder metal plates. Shaped like a large camera, the all-purpose, hand-operated device emits a laser-like beam of electrons. Savitskaya and Dzhanibekov then switched roles, and she photographed him as he worked...
...called Vietnam legacy is a potent political tool these days, and Karnow, who makes strong claims to historical objectivity in his book and documentary, must realize that his current educational mission can only work to raise fears about any military involvement abroad...
DIED. George Oppen, 76, Pulitzer-prizewinning poet of spare, free-form verse; in Sunnyvale, Calif. An active leftist, he gave up poetry for 28 years for political involvement, living by publishing the work of such poets as Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and by laboring as a tool-and-die maker and furniture designer...
...quarks discovered using slower less effective accelerators are indicators of the potential the larger tool has In recent months several experiments at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva have generated results inexplainable by accepted theory Physicists agree that the results could reflect the workings of the long sought single unifying force which may control all of nature's other forces, strong, weak, electromagnetic, and gravitational. The theory is far from proven but preliminary calculations using the new results show promising evidence. However definitive answers may only be attainable with the proposed Super Collider...