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...there are success stories. General Railroad Equipment and Services, Inc., a black-owned firm in East St. Louis, Ill., has doubled its sales and almost tripled its work force in four years in the SBA program. Dennis Yee, the son of Chinese immigrants who used federal funds to build Abacus Technology in Washington, hails the SBA for allowing him "to establish a top-quality, competitive consulting firm...
...prospect of mechanically consulting their punishment tables like an abacus leaves most judges dismayed. "I know of nobody who's keen to enforce this approach," says U.S. District Court Judge Laughlin Waters of Los Angeles. "Most judges don't want sentencing guidelines, period," admits Chairman William Wilkins of South Carolina, a federal appeals judge. But, he adds, "we all recognize we need a system where there is certainty and fairness. Without guidelines that is impossible." The absence of outright enthusiasm from any quarter for the commission's approach may be inevitable. As Stanford Criminal Law Professor John Kaplan says...
...they may represent-since they first learned how to count, probably with pebbles (the word calculus stems from the Latin for stone). At least 2,500 years ago, the Chinese, among others, discovered that they could handle numbers more easily by sliding little beads on strings. Their invention, the abacus, is still...
...rushed or skipped altogether because, although the cafeteria opened early enough to allow us 25 minutes before leaving for classes downtown, much of this time was wasted waiting in line, first for the food and then for the cashier to add up the bill on an abacus (she used the cash register only as a cash box). The breakfast offerings included greasy fried eggs, cold beets, herring with onions, porridge, sausage, lukewarm condensed milk, and hot ultra-sweetened...
...students at Perkins were acutely aware not of my movements but of the sound of the camera shutter release. Despite other subtle adjustments to living without sight--placing a finger inside a cup to tell when to stop pouring or using an abacus for computation--Perkins resembles any other school. The cafeteria is crowded with students welcoming the temporary break from classes. They are joking, laughing, complaining, and the seniors are worrying about their upcoming...