Once you receive notification of an oral presentation you immediately smell the money and the corporate blood pressure rises, particularly for the person who is selected to give the presentation. This happens to everybody to varying degrees, and the pressure increases with the size of the contract at stake.nce you receive notification of an oral presentation you immediately smell the money and the corporate blood pressure rises, particularly for the person who is selected to give the presentation. This happens to everybody to varying degrees, and the pressure increases with the size of the contract at stake.
Spandex proved versatile, however, and soon found its way into swimwear and then runnerâs leggings with the rise of jogging in the 1970s, before it ended up in our beloved Lululemon yoga pants in the late 1990s.
Eleven years later, James Bogardus patented a âforever pointedâ pencil in the U.S. While these patents mark a great step forward in pencil history, the giant leap wouldnât occur until 1879. This is when Joseph Hoffmann invented the pushbutton clutch in New York City. First incorporated into the Eagle Automatic, a product of the Eagle Pencil Company, this represents the first true mechanical pencil.