Los Angeles Times – In December 1978, ads in this newspaper listed a VCR at Sears for $795 — more than $2,500 in today’s dollars. A basic five-cycle washing machine? Back then, $319.95, which translates to about $1,000. It’s cheaper now to enjoy an eight-day vacation

Chief medical advice from family: Get better
Baltimore Sun – IHEARD this week from my sister, the mother of the twin girls who just turned 3. All her children (she has three) are down with the sort of childhood maladies that arrive in the late winter. Her washing machine is working overtime. The children just

Volunteer helps bring creature comfort to cats in shelters
Frederick News-Post – Through trial and error, Nellis discovered that beds made with a fleece covering and 100 percent cotton batting innards hold up the best to constant laundering in the shelter’s industrial washing machine. Polyester gets hard and brittle after too

Outrage we must end now
The Sun – He came down like a bag of washing and was too inexperienced to know how to react if he got into trouble. shot dead in Afghanistan after being sent into battle without crucial night vision goggles, grenade launchers or machine

Contra Costa Times – For devices that became absolutely soaked “” submerged in the surf or run through your washing machine “” you should first wait a day before turning on the unit.
Source: www.contracostatimes.com

CTA tries new defense for sticky situation
Chicago Tribune – servicers who clean vehicles at the CTA’s 74th Street garage, 1815 W. 74th St., are now armed to the teeth with a machine bus servicer to complete a general cleaning of one bus, which goes beyond the daily cleaning regimen to include washing and
Source: www.chicagotribune.com

He leaves the diplomacy to China-bound Dodgers
Los Angeles Times – “So what do you think of the Machine?” I asked, and Phil Jackson said something about a “washing machine” and he had no idea who I was talking about until The Times’ Mark Heisler set him straight. But then that’s just what Heisler does for a living
Source: www.latimes.com

Will Ferrell trots out familiar persona for basketball comedy Semi
Tribune-Star – He trades the team washing machine and brings in former Boston Celtics bench warmer Ed Monix (Woody Harrelson) to help his players, including the showboating Clarence Coffee Black Withers (Andre Benjamin). But Ed is also in Flint to rekindle a
Source: www.tribstar.com

Archives for: January 2008
Cape Cod Today – B IDDEFORD, Maine — Eight endangered sea turtles have arrived in Maine as part of their rehabilitation after washing up on From that point forward, said band will forever be referred to in causal conversation as “a product of the hype machine.”
Source: www.capecodtoday.com

Contra Costa Times – For devices that became absolutely soaked “” submerged in the surf or run through your washing machine “” you should first wait a day before turning on the unit.

Home Q & A
Rutland Herald – I was inspired to dig into a problem with our washing machine. It smelled. My wife has been patient while I made attempts at cleaning what I could get at without taking the machine apart.

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Egypt Today – six-person suites are a virtual home away from home, fitted with a living room-cum-bedroom in addition to a master bedroom, as well as a dining area, two bathrooms and a fully equipped kitchen that has everything from a microwave to a washing machine

Slate – These are not wild suggestions, and they involve just us. (For example, I have seen couples on TV have sex with the woman sitting on a running washing machine.

‘Semi-Pro’ fails to score laughs
Baton Rouge Advocate – Woody Harrelson co-stars as Monix, a washed-up player who s traded from another team in exchange for the Tropics washing machine. Sporting a Javier Bardem hairstyle, the grim but basketball-smart Monix has an ulterior motive for coming to Flint

Hartford Courant – A washing machine rusts outside. Indoors, piles of photo albums, toys and bicycles gather dust. As the number of evictions rise, municipalities are straining under the cost of meeting an 1895 law, written before an era of mass consumerism and three

Profitable food packaging
Converting Today – Designed for short production run applications, the Rotomec machine represented a break with Cellografica Gerosa s tradition Instrumental to the fast job makeready and change-overs is the trolley washing system, a special feature of Rotomec s RS

Kentucky New Era – When the Hopkinsville woman s washing machine broke down on Friday, she decided to make a quick trip to Lowe s Home Improvement Warehouse.

OBAMA GUY CRASHES CLINTON CALL
New York Daily News – Ladies & Gentlemen, Dads & Moms buy nothing GE & Westinghouse are selling – not Obama, not a washing machine, a dishwasher, 29 nuke power plants, or a garbage disposer . because there is no garbage disposer for Radioactive Nuke Waste. Do not allow

Beyond Textbooks, D.C. Schools Face a Host of Social Needs
Washington Post – Nadine Evans of Young America Works Public Charter School, which has a washing machine and food pantry for children who are dirty or hungry. (By Jahi Chikwendiu — The Post) On the third floor at Johnson Middle School in Southeast Washington, behind

Record – I don’t think it will affect anyone in that they’ll have to go out and buy a new toilet or washing machine,” Snow said. “But when it’s time to change, there will be incentives to go buy a low-flow toilet or whatever.

Hold the Ice
WTHR – Scientists say improper hand washing, food handling and equipment maintenance are to blame for high bacteria levels found in At each restaurant and bar, WTHR ordered a drink with a separate glass of ice or got ice from a self-serve ice machine

Ewww, that washing machine stinks!
KTRK – HOUSTON (KTRK) — Even though her towels had just come out of the wash, Joyce Pelley says something was not right. “We had stinky towels,” said Pelley It did not matter how many times she washed them, the towels had an odor. Pelley said, “As soon as

Indian Cricket – With a ‘Swiss Tony’ announcer waxing lyrical during the break about a sponsors competition – I swear he said putting the ball in through the hole in the giant washing machine was much like making love to a beautiful lady – it became obvious just how

12 ideas for living a frugal life
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin – Michelle McKay of Phoenix offered to trade haircuts for parts and labor needed to fix her washing machine. Instead, someone offered a washer for free.

Still leery of making a leap to jump drives
Gulf News – I’ve even heard of flash drives that survived a trip through the washing machine and dryer. But flash drives do not get perfect marks either. Some experts worry that, because of how the memory is stored, the number of read/write cycles is limited.

Lufkin Daily News – A coin-operated washing machine was burglarized at Cherry’s Grocery on Friday. A man found out on Friday that his Social Security number had been used in multiple states and that he owed the IRS over $10,000 because of the identity theft.

Cloth diapers are making a comeback
KEYE Austin – Today, there’s no bleaching involved, cloth diapers can be cleaned in the washing machine. And there are plenty of choices depending on how much you want to spend.

Talk of the Town: I m gonna wash that stress right out of my hair
Green Valley News and Sun – The washing machine eats your socks. True. Sometimes lightweight objects like socks get sucked down the drain hose along with the dirty water. To reduce the chance of this happening, load heavy items at the bottom of the machine and the lighter ones

Sports-comedy all-star Ferrell turns Pro
Boston Herald – They got him by trading a washing machine. Maura Tierney appears as Harrelson s love interest, a role so thin and undernourished it requires an intervention.

Baltimore Sun – To show that he’s serious, Moon immediately trades the team’s washing machine to the Kentucky Colonels for a player who can actually play: Eddie Monix ( Woody Harrelson), who wears an NBA championship ring around his neck, though he won it just

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dBusinessNews.com – Something as simple as a $10 washing machine hose can fail, resulting in $5,300 in property damage on average and many hours spent cleaning up and making repairs, according to IBHS research. We can reduce some of the unnecessary expense and