Word: productions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...behind a wife and four children, two of whom are Seattle cops, Quan returned in 1982 to "do something for China -- and myself." But certainly not because of any romantic longing for his roots. "You know what they say about the good old days," he says. "They are the product of bad memory...
...Microfridge, offered by Microfridge, Inc., is a three-piece appliance composed of a compact refrigerator, a separate freezer compartment and a mini-microwave. The product retails...
Bennett said if a consumer wanted to cook in the microwave, then the freezer and refrigerator would shut off temporarily, and resume when the cooking was done. Product testing showed that even when the microwave was on for 45 minutes, the machine's cooler parts gained only three degrees, Bennett said...
...similar effect. Says Ron Anderson, vice chairman of the Bozell ad agency: "Ten or 15 years ago, there was a sense of tokenism. Some advertisers would throw a black or Hispanic into an ad because they were sensitive to minorities. Now we use blacks and Hispanics to sell a product...
Fuzzy logic began to find applications in industry in the early '70s, when it was teamed with another form of advanced computer science called the expert system. A product of research into artificial intelligence, expert systems solve complex problems somewhat like human experts do -- by applying rules of thumb. (Example: when the oven gets very hot, turn the gas down a bit.) In 1980 F.L. Smidth & Co. of Copenhagen began marketing the first commercial fuzzy expert system: a computer program that controlled the fuel-intake rate and gas flow of a rotating kiln used to make cement...