Word: velcro
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BELIEVERS IN A UNIFIED CZECHOSLOVAKIA MAY NOW regret that Vaclav Havel's 1989 "velvet revolution" wasn't the "Velcro revolution" instead. Parliamentary elections have revealed deepening differences between Czechs and Slovaks, thus increasing the chances that the 74-year-old federation will become unstitched like the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Last week, after the autonomy-seeking Movement for a Democratic Slovakia topped the polling in the Slovak republic, the group's leader, Vladimir Meciar, pressed his demand for a total rearrangement of Czech-Slovak relations...
...Look right!" I screamed, not bothering to fight the panic. Both my hands closed over the red release tab attached to my right harness strap and pulled it from the velcro strip...
...jury he was nothing more than a misunderstood plumbing salesman. But this time the government's case looked perfect. The witnesses did not lose their memories on the stand. The tapes were clear. The underboss spilled the grim details. The jury was protected. "The Don is covered with Velcro," said the assistant director of the FBI's New York office, James Fox, "and every charge stuck...
...Commonwealth Ave., Kenmore Square, Cambridge. 536-2750. Velcro Peasants, Cleopatra Jones and Shine on March 5. The Fighting Cocks, The Turbulent Daughters, Snidley Whiplash and The Furies on March 6. The Incredible Casuals, Harmony Rockets and Three Pound Universe Sunspots on March...
...tech creativity with recreational activity grows more intense -- and the resulting gizmos grow more intriguing and elaborate. No innovation is safe from rethinking: last year's air-filled running shoe, for example, is now competing against a new computer-designed number from Puma that needs no laces, straps or Velcro fasteners. The Puma Disc tightens by means of an invisible system: a turn of the dial on the shoe's tongue compresses connecting sleeves around it, making the shoe hug the particular shape of your foot. But such convenience items are overshadowed by advances in big-ticket technology. Among other...