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Word: ziploc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hitches around to look back at his companion, Jeanette, who sits on the bed doing something with stacks of tiny Ziploc bags. "Wasn't that '81, hon?" Taking a mumble for confirmation, Big John peers beyond the cat stretched out in the sunlight on the dashboard. "There are 150 narcs running around out there, and everybody is in a stampede to roll over. Everybody and his brother is distributing Product, and it's getting to be a dog-eat-dog world." His face assumes a mournful set: "I've been ripped off by my friends big time; they get down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southern California Tales of the Crank | 4/24/1989 | See Source »

...apparent solution to this age-old problem is now at hand. General Foods has introduced new packaging for two of its Post cereals, Natural Raisin Bran and Natural Bran Flakes. The products are enclosed in easy-to-open, easy-to- reseal plastic bags that are similar to the popular Ziploc items...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Solution For Soggy Cereal | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...Orleans show marked a coming of age for software, once the neglected stepchild of the computer business. In four years, personal-computer software sales have grown from $ 175 million to $2.1 billion. Exhibitors last week ranged from two-person companies with products packed in Ziploc bags to such corporate giants as IBM and A T & T. Houghton Mifflin, the book publisher, introduced several new computer programs, including one that checks spelling. Said President Richard Young: "We assume the software business will grow at twice the rate of our other business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: The Stepchild Comes of Age | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

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