Word: alto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...holds a lesson for the millions of office workers who have traded in their memo pads for keyboards, including some 125,000 people worldwide who use the same IBM PROFS (Professional Office System) software installed at the NSC. "This has worried me for years," says Susan Nycum, a Palo Alto, Calif., attorney specializing in technology. "There are two very different assumptions at work here: the guy using the system assumes he has total privacy; the guy running the system assumes he has total access...
...science help shrinking violets blossom? Well, not yet. But Stanford University researchers believe they have identified a chemical key to shyness. In a study of 16 men at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Center, they found that timid types have lower levels of the brain chemical dopamine than more extroverted individuals (as measured by standardized personality tests...
...actress-singer orchestrates her vocal versatility and preternatural empathy to slip inside the spirit of each song. Performing the title tune from The Rose, the lovely mantra of regeneration that has become Bette's Over the Rainbow, she sings in her own haunting alto. But she can go seductively nasal for E Street Shuffle, chicly bonkers for Twisted, brassy and clinging for her evocations of the low-biz Songstresses Vicki Eydie and Dolores DeLago. Midler's most powerful number, Stay with Me (best heard on the sound-track album of her 1980 concert film, Divine Madness), is the plea...
...cost of caring for victims of the disease, many of whom are denied health insurance, is already estimated to exceed a billion dollars a year. By 1991 AIDS medical bills could total as much as $14 billion annually, according to Health Economist Anne Scitovsky of the Palo Alto (Calif.) Medical Research Foundation, "and that does not begin to address the loss in productivity from the death of people in the prime of life...
...Stan got up a band. Chester Triplett, an oral surgeon from nearby Naples, took over the skins. Tom Werth, a librarian, took a tenor sax, as did Bill Russell, a retired railroad dispatcher. Pam Dane, a senior in high school, threw in with the geezers on alto sax, as did Pam's chum Diana Macumber, who blows a baritone saxophone. Corbin Wyant, publisher of the Naples Daily News, contributes on trombone, along with Jim Kalvin, a marina owner, Michael Isabella, an embroidery manufacturer, and Scott Wise, a salesman. Two other salesmen, Roger Park and Steve Chamberlain, address their chops...