Word: buttoned
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Reed, who studied industrial management and engineering at M.I.T., was attuned to the potential of technology and seemed a natural to lead Citicorp in the new era of electronic banking. Theobald was the traditional button-down banker, a statesman who was equally comfortable talking finance with corporate chiefs or foreign heads of state. Angermueller was not really a banker at all. He was a Harvard-trained lawyer who was adept at breaking down the legal barricades that stood in the way of Citicorp's moves across state boundaries and into new businesses like stock brokerage...
...could not gain through diplomatic channels. Given Moscow's almost pathological antipathy for Reagan, the Soviets could also be trying to influence the outcome of the U.S. elections by allowing the Democrats to paint the President as a man not to be trusted with his finger on the nuclear button. One significant danger of the present situation, according to an American specialist in Soviet affairs, is that the U.S. "can no longer count on measured and rational responses" from the Soviets. Says he: "There is no taut line of control in Moscow. The soft leadership situation means that we cannot...
...press the button, we do the rest." That marvelously simple slogan helped sell millions of Eastman Kodak cameras starting in 1888. Today, however, the owner of a new video cassette recorder or some other electronic wonder must turn to an instruction manual to get his machine working. But that is often when the trouble begins: the consumer opens a booklet to find a compilation of jargon, gibberish and just plain confusion. "There is a major disease in this country called wall-stare," says Sanford Rosen, president of Communication Sciences, a Minneapolis consulting firm. "When people read a computer manual, they...
...reach of Max's 7-ft.-long, windmill-Uke solar array panels and fire the minijets on his MMU to match Max's spin of one revolution every 6 min. Using a trunnion-pin attachment device (TPAD), a hollow canister-shaped mechanism strapped like a huge belly button to the chest of his suit, Nelson would gently bump the 5,000-lb. satellite's protruding trunnion pin (installed for just such a rescue). Three rubber-coated, spring-loaded jaws in Nelson's TPAD were supposed to snap like a mousetrap, firmly locking Max's trunnion...
...phones, which are made by United Technologies, occasionally malfunctioned when the hotel opened late last year. The general manager once pushed a button to speak to his secretary. Within minutes, the director of housekeeping popped in to tell him his conversation was being broadcast to every room on the fifth floor. But guests report that the system is working fine now. Says John Genzano, a Philadelphia computer programmer, who was honeymooning last week at the hotel: "This is the neatest thing in the world. Everything you need runs from the telephone...