Word: twinned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...travelers and other customers since they were first introduced in 1979. The MAC1 is spacious enough for Western frames and comes with extras not available on the more spartan Japanese models. The basic module, made of plastic lined with fire-resistant foam, costs $2,500 and comes with a twin-size foam mattress, overhead light and climate-control unit. More lavishly equipped versions, costing up to $3,900 each, feature color TV, radio, telephone, tape deck and hot-drink dispenser. Despite design improvements, McLaren concedes, it may be some time before Americans awaken to the benefits of capsule accommodation...
Even though Bic has beaten Gillette in the lighter skirmish, the battle between the two companies will rage on. The firms are equally fierce competitors in the throwaway pen and razor markets. While Bic's pen outsells Gillette's Write Bros, model, the Gillette twin-blade disposable Good News shaver holds an edge over the Bic single-blade entry. Gillette is also the leading producer of blades and razors in the U.S. and Canada and most of the rest of the world. In the bathroom battle at least, the American company continues to clean...
...planes made of titanium and graphite-epoxy composites. Multinational companies were attracted to the Falcon 900 (price: $13.5 million), a 27-seat craft introduced last month and capable of flying from New York to Tokyo with just one stop. High-rolling investment bankers liked the Gulfstream IV 19-passenger twin jet (also $13.5 million), with video screens at every seat and a computerized flight deck that an airline captain might envy...
...deceptively bland, a bookish man with an enormous capacity for work. He is at his desk by 7 a.m., eats breakfast with his clerks at 8, and does not leave until 8 at night When Blackmun first came on the court he was known as Burger's "Minnesota Twin," since he grew up with Burger in St Paul and seemed to follow the chiefs lead docilely. But after two years, Blackmun began to go his own, more liberal way, and Burger never forgave him. Court insiders say that the chief now assigns Blackmun boring opinions as punishment. Blackmun told...
...robot conquest has been accomplished without those twin evils of kids' toys: batteries and $99.99 price tags. There are some larger versions, even a few that are battery-powered, but the 3¾-in. to 5½-in. GoBots and their competitors are not to be confused with the fancier adult playthings that fetch drinks or sweep the kitchen. Rather, many of these unwired "action figures," which cost a modest $3 to $22, get their go from a special twist. They are fantasy machines and long-favored hot-rods all in one. With a crank of the arms...