Word: users
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expanding its system to serve the entire Chevrolet-Parma plant. That will cost $3,000,000. But the process will pay for itself by allowing GM-or any other industrial user-to burn the cheapest and most abundant of all fuels: high-sulfur coal...
...easy living with a pinball machine. Television isn't the only thing that this wicked electronic monster entices me from. Somehow, reading about the lineage system of the User tribesmen isn't quite as thrilling as the orgasmic excitement of getting a really good flip that sends the ball into seeming oblivion. The satisfaction of saving the ball from the "kamakazi drain" by giving just the right body English is far greater than finally figuring out Taylor's theorem...
...Bill. Bill payment is only one service that the touch telephone user can command from the computer. By entering different combinations of numbers, an account holder can have the computer calculate twice-monthly and year-to-date totals for his household expenses; check his addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in figuring out accounts; send him biweekly reminders of important dates coming up; or even figure out his estimated federal income tax and send him, between...
...others. Larry Geeslin, a tall, thin faced second semester senior, who found TM while on a leave of absence, describes the method as being simple and natural. A nonsense word called a "mantra" is assigned for life to each student by a teacher. Contemplation of the mantra allows the user to enter the transcendental state, during which Geeslin says meditators appear to be sleeping but in fact remain acutely alert to the outside environment. "What occurs during meditation is that everyday levels of thought become quieter and quieter until the quietest level can be transcended. The quieting is accompanied...
High Costs. Most important to the new users is coke's current status as an "in" drug. "It's the height of fashion," says a well-heeled snow freak, "because it shows success." A "spoon" (usually half a gram) of cocaine costs between $25 and $50, and lasts an ordinary user just one evening. Heavy snorters spend several hundred a week. It is considered chic to inhale coke through a tightly rolled $100 bill. Silver straws from Tiffany's, intended for creme de menthe, are also used. Expensive vials and snuffboxes are popular too. Priest, a coke...