Word: trunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...script for ER had been sitting in Crichton's trunk since 1974, when the former Harvard medical student wrote it as a movie screenplay. It languished until the late 1980s, when Steven Spielberg read it and got interested. But Spielberg was more interested in another Crichton project -- Jurassic Park -- and ER sat around for a few more years, until someone at Spielberg's Amblin Productions suggested turning it into a TV pilot. "Almost nothing was changed," says Crichton, "except cleaning up the language...
...Winthrop House resident Yari Perez-Martin '97, whose trunk full of desk equipment was mildewed during a summer flood in that house, said she learned a valuable lesson...
...pulled on her mildewed trunk, another student was complaining about what storage had done to his stuff, Perez-Martin recalled. A house security guard remarked: "You know, you store at your own risk...
...other handicaps could stall their drive toward two-way TV. Although they lead in the race to lay fiber-optic cable, much of it was originally installed to carry a high volume of phone traffic into cities and therefore does not connect to individual homes; instead, the fiber-optic trunk lines branch into twisted pairs of copper wires, which carry far less information directly to the customer. That means the companies must either replace this so-called last mile with fiber-optic cable or find a way to compress the data through the thin copper openings...
...does take up most of the street to buildit," the coordinator said of the main trunk...