Word: buttons
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Even with computers, the stenotypist's technique remains the same. Pressing one or more letters on a 22-button keyboard, the stenotypist writes phonetically, omitting letters that are not sounded, or uses one of 3,000 standard abbreviations to represent a familiar word or phrase. For example, W stands for "with," KR for "consider." These abbreviations are printed on narrow strips of self-folding paper. In CAT systems, the keystrokes are also recorded electronically on a tape or magnetic disk, then fed into a computer that expands the stenographic shorthand into English and prints out a transcript that needs only...
...could be more American than that? Show biz, not solemnity, is an American hallmark; taste is not guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. President Reagan's aides were concerned that their man would be demeaned by the Busby Berkeley choreography. Others joked about his pressing the game-show-size button to flash a laser beam that lighted the Lady. A malfunction, and there goes Star Wars. But the old actor, like the old gal to whom he paid tribute, seemed to rise above the script, as they say in Hollywood, and share the dignity that she never lost. His words...
...hurricane, we go the following evening." At the first ceremony, the signal to drop the French tricolor veil from Liberty's face set guns to booming and crowds to cheering during a speech by New York Senator William Evarts. Wolper's nightmare: the President hits the button to light the statue, but nothing happens. So a $250,000 backup system is in place...
...Mateo, Calif. Even before Lucky's computerized check-out system has finished scanning the bar codes on his coffee, beer and bread, Miller has run his bank card through the system's magnetic strip reader, punched in his personal identification number and poised his finger above a button marked AMOUNT...
Whatever the real story behind the mysterious events at the Orson Welles last Friday, I would recommend extreme caution to anyone planning to see Jouney into Fear or A Touch of Evil in the near future. As for me, I have to go button my trenchcoat and don my snapbrim before I venture out on a lonely quest for a little truth down those dark, mean streets...