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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lyng said yesterday that switching to flourescent lights will cut energy costs in Leverett House by 20 percent annually. Leverett currently spends $60,000 each year on electricity, making it the third biggest user after Currier and Mather Houses...
While the Lisa has been called a technological marvel, only 6,000 have been sold, fewer than expected. The main reason is that Apple has been unable to break into the corporate market. At a price of nearly $10,000, the machine was clearly aimed at the professional user. But IBM, with its huge sales force, is particularly strong in that market, and Apple's 100 salespersons were no match. Even after this week's cut, the Lisa may still be too expensive for large corporate customers. Explains Kurt Schweer, a vice president of Crocker National Bank...
...desire to hang around may prefer chairs designed to take pressure off the back. Among the hottest sellers are Balans chairs, Norwegian imports that retail for $180 to $550. They are actually stools with a seat and a padded knee rest sloped in a way that forces the user to have proper posture. One Chicago distributor expects to sell 15,000 of the chairs this year, up from less than 1,000 in 1979. Another popular item, particularly favored by truck drivers and police officers, is the Sacro-Ease, a plastic or velour car seat that provides support...
Even though such warnings are printed on steroid packaging, some gyms and coaches willingly offer the services of a friendly pharmacist to interested players. Many say they take the drugs to keep up with East bloc competitors, who are widely believed to be using steroids. The user athletes have been getting advice on how to beat the occasional test at meets. Explains Dr. Anthony Daly, medical director for the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee: "They used to feel safe if they stopped taking steroids two to three weeks before the test." Not after last week...
Chui hoped that that would be the last of it. It was not. After the weekend he discovered that someone had made contact with the computer through a telephone hookup and introduced a new program: whenever a legitimate user typed in his password, the code name was immediately sent to the intruder. "It was panic," says Dr. Radhe Mohan, director of the computer service. "Someone was up to big mischief that could have conceivably caused harm...