Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three Harvard graduate students have developed a revolutionary new way to operate a vacuum cleaner...
Although exasperation with household chores was not the motivation for their invention, the three participants in a Harvard science program have created a breakthrough mechanism which enables the vacuum cleaner to operate...
...diffusion of the Democrats' majority coalition and the vacuum of program and leadership are fundamental dilemmas. The "special-interests problem" is largely one of image; it can most easily be solved by skillful management. Moreover, a truly constructive approach to image improvement might go a long way toward providing the kind of unified and strong vision needed to solve the party's deeper conflicts...
...challenges Schumpeter's argument that change is the essence of modern economic life. Horsepower gave way to steam power, and vacuum tubes were replaced by transistors. Industries decline, while others grow. No nation today can isolate itself from those changes if it hopes to remain economically competitive. The Maginot Line did not protect France in 1940, and no economic Maginot Line will protect the U.S., now or in the future...
...response, advocates say that SDI research, like the space program, will have spin-offs that benefit private industry. The knowledge gained through Apollo flights helped scientists develop a multitude of products, from miniature computer chips to the cordless Dustbuster vacuum cleaner. Says John Rittenhouse, executive vice president of the aerospace and defense division at RCA: "We're not banking on SDI reaching production. We're banking on the fallout to commercial and consumer areas for the payoff." Technology spawned by SDI could conceivably be used to build better communications equipment, air-traffic-control systems or industrial robots. High-speed computers...