Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michel Serebecbere, maître d' of the Maurice Restaurant in New York City's posh Parker Meridien Hotel, last year noticed that business people were desperate for anything to take notes on during breakfast and luncheon meetings. They resorted to envelopes, blank checks or even $20 bills. Now executives find something more convenient. Sitting on the tables next to the salt and pepper is a small (2½ in. by 4¼ in.) gray-beige note pad with the legend, "Notes While Dining at the Maurice...
...decision," said Asner, "throws it into the lap of Congress to create a small tax on blank tapes and machines." From this tax, which Vallenti now suggests be $25 a machine and 25 cents a tape--enough to produce some $57 million in 1982--would come the compensation to the studios for the losses they have incurred. Already, Senator Charles Mathias (D-Md.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Patents and Copyrights, has introduced such legislation in Congress. On the Hill, the producers face a tough fight as their lobbyists compete with the claims of the millions of voting...
...bear hug, assuring his father that there is absolutely nothing wrong. "We have a nifty house...we'll do just fine, an asshole and a sonofabitch." He then leaves Harry to trot back to the beach, as the camera zooms to the face of his father, blank with shock and rage. He then proceeds to kick out his offspring in the hope that "...he'll see the light when he feels the heat." The expectation seems futile, for the son's grief at the end appears just as self-indulgent and uncomprehending as does his affection and manic cheer throughout...
...information electronically in microseconds has always found it strange that its products are delivered to stores like books or records. Softyme Express, a San Francisco firm, last week announced an agreement with computer distributor Micro D to place machines in retail outlets that will let customers receive programs on blank discs over telephone lines. Two other firms, Romox, of Campbell, Calif., and Xante, of Tulsa, are testing or marketing similar systems. Nolan Bushnell, the multimillionaire founder of Atari, is even talking about selling software from vending machines...
...Harper's isn't that bad Really. It does have problems, most obviously the hamburger-helper layout, which features lots of blank space and confusing or pointless graphics. They also haven't figured out how many columns they want on a page, and the new typeface is hard on the eye. Their "Annotation" (applying the techniques of history to a confusing modern document), which featured a doctor commenting upon a hospital bill, was almost laughably silly And the greatest problem is that unless their succession of short articles; tables and charts are extraordinarily compelling, they tend to vanish from...