Word: users
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about 2450 to 2290 B.C., is a puzzling blank in Egyptology. Little of its art has survived; its pyramids were jerry-built and unprepossessing; the surviving clues to its history are so meager that few of its pharaohs can even be identified. One who can be was King Ny-user-ra, who ruled from about 2370 to 2360 B.C. Few statues of Ny-user-ra were known; one of them was in the Cairo Museum. It gave no hint of his appearance, since head and torso were missing, but it was certainly he, because his name was carved...
Putting this third-millennium Humpty Dumpty together again was an impressive feat of memory and scholarship. In 1970, Dr. Bothmer found a granite carving in the National Museum of Lebanon in Beirut that he was able to identify as an effigy of Ny-user-ra. Checking archives for other monuments of the obscure King, he turned up a reference to the lower half of the broken Cairo statue, which had its left arm hanging by its side but no trace of a right arm. The Rochester bust, he remembered, was close in style to the statue of Ny-user...
...more coal and oil to meet the demand, send potentially harmful effluents into the air despite serious industry efforts at emission control. Last week a substitute for conventionally produced electricity was put on display. It would be pollution-free-but, in its present stage of development, cost the user at least twice as much...
...impressed by the testimony of Kolansky and Moore. Their view was reinforced by the nation's chief narcotics enforcement officer, Director John Ingersoll of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, who testified that pot can be "psychologically habituating, often resulting in an antimotivational syndrome in which the user is more apt to contemplate a flower pot than try to solve his problem...
...alternately rising and falling platforms, while the Treadmill ($235), a rubber mat on rollers with sidebar support, actually records the footage covered, if not inches lost. Gyrogym's Smartbel ($59.50), a 2-lb. dumbbell "with a mind of its own," generates surprisingly strong gyroscopic forces that cause the user to exert himself just as much as he would with a 110-lb. weight. The Skinny Dipper ($50), a V-shaped chaise, flattens out under the weight of the user, then bounces him back for more...