Word: washing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revive decaying industries and give smaller firms all the benefits of mass production. Ultimately, it may also transform the way society itself is organized and the way it assesses its values. These steel-collar workers already paint cars, assemble refrigerators, drill aircraft wings, mine coal and, for that matter, wash windows; newer robots now on the drawing boards will soon be spraying crops with pesticides, digging up minerals deep under the oceans and repairing satellites in outer space. Not too far off, experts predict, is that landmark day when robots will begin designing and then building other robots. "The human...
Vancouver, Wash...
Lunch Hour might have been better served by a different star. Gilda Radner is referred to as a waif, and tries to mimic scatterbrained vulnerability; but it does not wash. She radiates tensile strength. If she were crossing the Arctic wastes and her Huskies died, she could and would tow the dog sled to the Pole. That invincible force happens to be wrong for this play...
...management would be a far different place, with more moderate Democrats facing more conservative Republicans. Savoring a big re-election win in Kansas, Republican Robert Dole observed: "The liberals in Congress are going to have to learn a lesson. There is a kind of liberalism that doesn't wash any more." At the same time, the high turnover will probably make the Senate even more independent and self-willed. While its majority will share the basic outlook of the conservative President-elect, a Republican 97th Senate could prove to be just as balky as its predecessor...
...animals have now become a big business. Advertisers issue casting calls to rental agencies like New York City's All-Tame Animals or directly to trainers who maintain their own menageries. Ford leased its leaping lynx from Lloyd Beebe, the owner of Olympic Game Farms in Sequim, Wash. Beebe's 300 or so actors in residence, including elephants, rhinos and wolves, earned $2 million last year from commercials, movies and television shows. His business is growing at about 15% annually...