Word: breakfasting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...daughter three months old; the computer in her cream-colored stucco house in South Minneapolis is surrounded by children's books, laundry, ajar of Dippity Do. An experienced programmer at Control Data before she decided to have children, she now settles in at the computer right after breakfast, sometimes holding the baby in a sling. She starts by reading her computer mail, then sets to work converting a PLATO grammar program to a disc that will be compatible with Texas Instruments machines. "Midmorning I have to start paying attention to the three-year-old, because he gets antsy," says Hardinger...
...Presidency/Hugh Sidey Looking for Ideas That Work Ninety-six top thinkers, ranging from Hanna Holborn Gray, president of the University of Chicago, to George Gilder, the supply-side guru, worked their way through dozens of seminars, breakfast discussions and banquet speeches last week, unleashing a deluge of ideas to get America moving again...
Tuned In BREAKFAST WITH LES AND BESS by Lee Kalcheim...
...time is 1961, when there actually were airwave couples like Les and Bess observing the absurd convention that breakfast was a time for smiley voices instead of burned toast and reviewing comedies like this. Nowadays, when the shows that used to be off-Broadway are on the main stem, and Broadway shows are running in the little houses, things like this open less glitzily. But the formula is as ever: one set, six characters, some brisk banter and a simple conflict in values bobbing along the sparkly surface...
...news was for the short-run outlook, it was almost matched for bleakness by long-run prognostications made last week by the chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. A somber Martin Feldstein told a breakfast gathering of reporters at the Washington Press Club that the unemployment rate may take five or six years to drop to the 6% to 7% level that prevailed during the early months...