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...acronym-awed Washington, stirring up the alphabet soup is a serious matter. Thus it has become a critical concern in the capital that White House officials have begun referring to certain ongoing negotiations with the Soviet Union not as a continuation of SALT (which stands for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) but as START (for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks...
...first, successful, campaign for Congress in 1948. Among the treasures: Ford's typed pardon of Predecessor Richard Nixon, an aide's memo suggesting that he not keep Alexander Haig as Chief of Staff, and a copy of the Declaration of Independence made out of Campbell's alphabet soup noodles. Said a jubilant Ford of his special day: "They say you can't go home again. They're wrong...
...beginning readers, the computer combines high technology with the tried-and-true game of Hangman. Called Raise the Flags, this program features a sprightly, beaked electronic being named George who introduces the alphabet and a series of flagpoles. "My job is to spell a word," writes George. "Your job is to guess it." George gives the player a category such as food or nature, the number of letters, and seven guesses. After the player hazards a letter, George ambles across the screen to the proper place, peers down, and then shakes his head yes or no. If yes, he raises...
Many teachers and parents are skeptical of computer-controlled, cartoon-like learning devices. They wonder, as Author Fran Lebowitz has put it, what happens when the child "discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens." But the juvenile appetite for dancing letters appears to be insatiable. Indeed, this fall some of the computer software, designed by Children's Television Workshop of New York City, creators of Sesame Street and Sesame Place, will be available in computer retail shops and by direct mail from Apple...
...uses the terminology of Douglas McGregor, the late professor at M.I.T. who distinguished between two basic types of management attitudes in U.S. business: so-called Theory X bosses, who believe that workers are basically lazy and untrustworthy, and Theory Y managers, who hold the opposite view. Ouchi takes the alphabet one step further with the "Theory Z" corporation. This is a company that emphasizes long-range planning, consensus decision making and strong, mutual worker-employer loyalty. Ouchi argues that such corporations can be models for many American firms struggling with problems of high employee turnover, declining productivity and generalized worker...