Word: washing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country to stop buying school lunches, their districts will be unable to earn enough to run cafeterias with reduced federal subsidies. This would shut off free or cheap lunches for the needy too. So far, however, dropouts have been spotty. The 19-school Central Valley district in Spokane County, Wash., decided it could not come up with the additional $130,000 that it would have needed to run its lunchrooms with reduced federal subsidies. Now it prepares its own lunches with its own money, and charges $1 for each. Students who do not feel they can afford that price...
...program-writing language, BASIC which has sold more than 500,000 copies so far, Microsoft (projected 1981 sales: $14 million) was founded in 1975 by William Gates, then an 18-year-old Harvard student. Gates now oversees a staff of 96 at the firm's headquarters in Bellevue, Wash. Growth has come so fast that Gates has not yet found time to finish his degree at Harvard...
Requests for copies have come from as far away as Seattle, Wash., and as close as Winthrop. Councilor David Wylie, who, along with councilor Saundra Graham, originally proposed the unconventional brochure, said Monday that a number of cities, including Baltimore, Maryland, Sacramento, California, and Madison Wisc., have expressed interest in using Cambridge's pamphlet as a model for their own civil defense efforts...
...down-to-earth." "It's a guide to well-being, not just a collection of resources or a list of 'do's and 'don't's," he says. Orr, however, admits that some of the advice may be difficult to follow, particularly the recommendation to women not to wash after being raped. In addition, Orr says she is "worried" about the other booklet, "RAPE," which was co-authored by social workers at the University Health Services (UHS) and female members of the Police Department's sensitive crime unit. "It isn't deliberate, but there is [in "RAPE...
...steel wheel not much bigger than a silver dollar points Cavalier's snout in a fresh direction with the ease of a Cadillac swinging into a country-club driveway. Wooden helms are fast becoming museum pieces, like so many vestiges of wind-sailing days. Crews no longer wash then-clothes in deck buckets, they toss them in washers and dryers. Gone are the iceboxes and worries about the food spoiling...