Word: tulsa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginnings of a solution came in 1983, when the Tulsa-based StairMaster company pioneered the stair-climbing machine. The first model looked like a three-step escalator, and the steps revolved like a treadmill. But people found it hard to keep up with the machine, and only the superfit mastered it. In 1986 StairMaster introduced the 4000 PT, which was simpler to use. Exercisers push a pair of bicycle-like pedals that move up and down instead of in circles, and a computerized screen gives such data as the number of "flights" climbed and the "distance" traveled. Fans say they...
Forget the NHL playoffs, I'm wondering whether Tulsa can sweep the CBA Eastern Division championship series tonight with a win over Wichita Falls. Tulsa leads...
...biometric security system so far is the fingerprint scanner. In Japan a developer is installing the devices in 360 luxury homes as a security selling point. A health spa in Denver employs a print scanner to keep track of how often its members use the facilities. MAPCO Inc. of Tulsa relies on a system from Identix, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., to ensure that only authorized truck drivers are allowed to transport loads of dangerous gases...
...model, manufactured by EyeDentify of Beaverton, Ore., works by directing a low- intensity infrared light through the pupil to the back of the eye. Within two seconds the retinal pattern, viewed by a camera, is compared with data in stored records. At American Airlines' underground computer center in Tulsa, a dozen eye scanners screen the retinal patterns of 500 employees. "People were afraid of it at first," says Hani Rabi, an engineering manager for the airline. "But now they feel very comfortable with the security it affords...
...types of telemarketing cons are being hatched overnight, sometimes abetted by front-page news that provides a convincing sales pitch. After the 1987 stock-market crash shook investor confidence in securities, con artists began pushing such alternatives as rare coins, gold, oil and gas leases, and diamonds. One Tulsa-based telemarketing company cleaned up by selling shares in a "secret process" for converting volcanic sand on Costa Rican beaches into gold. A swindler who had been convicted of selling shares in a nonexistent gold mine continued to solicit new investors from a pay phone in his Wyoming prison...