Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Illinois at a glossy truck stop that offers all mechanical services, motel rooms, showers, Laundromat, game room, TV lounge, truckers' bulletin board and a stack of newspapers published by the Association of Christian Truckers. Piped-in music fills...
Many widely used technological innovations seem principally designed to save time or eliminate drudgery and routine. Electronic bulletin boards spare students the burden of finding announcement in campus newspapers or dropping by departmental offices. On-line catalogues save a trip to the library reading room. Word processing avoids the trouble of typing new drafts, while remote-site TV can take away the need to travel from home to campus...
...Institute. Television broadcasts mixed Easter week religious messages with prayers for President-elect Tancredo Neves, 75. In Neves' home state of Minas Gerais, an archbishop led special prayers at a Mass attended by 10,000 people. Outside the institute, hundreds of Brazilians, some weeping, waited for the latest medical bulletin...
...Those conditions help the Soviets control the flow of information, but they stifle the free exchange of ideas that is crucial to the rapid advance of computer science. In the U.S., many refinements in programming techniques have been developed by computer buffs who trade tips through networks and electronic bulletin boards...
...tourists stumbling around Harvard Yard this week might encounter any number of poles, bulletin boards, or kiosks covered with advertisements for tonight's "Krokodiloes" concert and wonder what sort of strange animal rituals Harvard students practice...