Word: bradleys
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...microcomputer, there are compact electronic learning aids that can be toted to and from school like a lunch box and cost from under $20 to about $120. Texas Instruments, a pioneer in "talking" computer chips, is the leading producer of these less expensive aids. (Others: Mattel, Coleco, Milton Bradley.) In 1978 TI introduced Speak & Spell, a talking learning aid, which imitated the human voice-questioning, coaching and correcting the user -with an integrated circuit on a single silicon chip. On a later machine, called Speak & Read ($75), a child can complete sentences at three levels of difficulty by pressing letters...
...also the doctrine of the Supreme Court in 1873, when Justice Joseph Bradley wrote those words in a decision upholding the right of Illinois to deny a license to practice law to the first woman applicant, Myra Bradwell. Women, the court in effect ruled, could be barred from becoming lawyers...
Nothing dramatizes the changes that have taken place in the past 108 years more than the nomination of Sandra O'Connor to the bench where Bradley once sat. Today some 50,000 women are going beyond their "paramount mission and destiny" by pursuing careers as lawyers. They represent about 10% of the profession, and the proportion is growing: one out of three students now graduating from law school is a woman. Female attorneys are no longer considered "a bizarre thing," as Shirley Hufstedler, Secretary of Education under Jimmy Carter, recalls they Eleanor Holmes Norton were when...
...Lasser, the ill-fated Mary Hartman; Symphony Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, who plea-bargained down to a disorderly-conduct charge; Rolling Stone Guitarist Keith Richard, whose hard living is legend; Comedian Flip Wilson, who was taken into custody only hours before a scheduled meeting with Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley. Not even the White House has been untouched. Dr. Peter Bourne, the Carter drug adviser who resigned after giving an aide a prescription for Quaaludes under a fictitious name, once stated that there was "occasional" use of cocaine among White House staffers (although a later charge that Carter...
...hours, the series had some regrettable omissions and some too-sweeping conclusions. CBS did not examine the possibility of fighting a European war without nuclear weapons or whether the 11.7% military pay boost last fall and another big one scheduled for Oct. 1 have eased manpower problems. Correspondent Ed Bradley criticized plans to spend $17 billion in 1982 on the four-service Rapid Deployment Force "when all they needed to do was send in the Marines." Matters are not quite that simple: Marine units are indeed organized and trained for quick assaults, but Army units that might be assigned...