The most secret level of our world lay revealed: the seabedded — wrecked ships, facades of houses, ballroom candelabra, toilet bowl, pirate chest, TV screen, mail coach, aircraft fuselage, cannon, marble torso, Kalashnikov, metal carapace of a tourist busload, baptismal font, automatic dishwasher, computer, swords sheathed in barnacles, coins turned to stone.
On the other hand, if you peg material items like dishwashers, computers, and so forth as major contributors to child welfare, then the United States might be more to your taste; as the Heritage Foundation points out, the Census Bureau finds that:Forty-six percent of all poor households actually own their own homes.
To pay a call on the local Communist Party boss, you go to the modern city hall, where the lobby has been transformed into a showroom for Haier's refrigerators, dishwashers, personal computers, mobile phones and flat-screen television sets.
From refrigerators to dishwashers and computers to water heaters, appliances account for a big share of your family's carbon footprint, and your energy bills.
I don't even have central heat; I never owned a microwave, a dishwasher, or a computer, not even a refrigerator.
Should our benchmark of success really be a car, a dishwasher, a TV, a computer, a microwave oven per person?
If you, dear consumer, agree that your TV — or computer or dishwasher or whatever — is covered for three years, please do not get in touch four years after the purchase.
They have agreed to live there as their ancestors would have -- without telephones, computers, dishwashers (or detergent, shampoo, tampons) -- except their ancestors weren't televised, as the Bowlers will be.
The average US household pushes an average of 10,000 kilowatt-hours of energy per year through its walls, ceilings, and floors to run refrigerators, computers, dishwashers, and so on.
An index was created by adding 10 items: dishwasher, vacuum cleaner, dryer, personal computer, internet connection, DVD player, video camera, stereo, holidays during last year (away from home for at least four consecutive days), and monthly spending for leisure over 50 euros (Cronbach's alpha 0.72; factor analysis confirmed that all items loaded positively onto one factor).
A French manicure for special occasions, since it doesn't withstand a full week on a computer keyboard or loading the dishwasher.
