Word: matchbooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...helped improve customers' appetites is the diversity of new products available. The most exciting ingredient, which will be the heart of 50 different computer models by year's end, is a $235 piece of silicon known as the 80386 microchip. It is this flat, black chip -- smaller than a matchbook -- that has powered the biggest advance in computer technology in recent memory. The 80386 brings to personal computers the speed and power that were once available only in larger and much more expensive minicomputers. IBM, Compaq and Tandy have built new high-end machines around this chip, which is made...
...Operator, well, could you help me place this call?/ See, the number on the matchbook is old and faded./ She's living in L.A./ With my best old ex-friend...
...basement of Canday Hall, was maintained by a scrupulous office manager, Stan S. Butler. The chalkboard was always washed, and notices on the bulletin board were always squarely lined up and pinned with four tacks each. Butler also apparently labelled everything "OFFICE COPY." Including one participant recalls, a single matchbook deep in a musty file drawer...
...show (ABC, Sunday, 7-8 p.m. E.D.T.) is thoughtful enough to provide identifying labels for those viewers who may be getting their diploma through a matchbook correspondence course: Isadora Duncan is described as "the controversial dancer," Balzac and Proust, in no uncertain terms, as "French novelists," and Thus Spake Zarathustra as "the famous composition by Richard Strauss...
Mimi likes red. So Brook Hollow is red this night. Hundreds of red and white balloons. Huge sprays of red gladiolas. The tablecloths are red, as are the matchbook covers with MIMI emblazoned on them. So too are the rubies surrounded by diamonds in Mimi's necklace and earrings. Neiman-Marcus allowed Mimi the run of the jewelry department to borrow anything she wanted for her ball. "It was real special," she admits...