Word: cats
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Still, a dog's life is subject to cultural differences. What is adorable in Pasadena might be pronounced delicious in Pyongyang. Whether a cat ends up in a lap or a wok is a matter of local custom. There are moments when Serpell seems to harbor a hidden vegetarian agenda. His descriptions of the insensitive technology of pig farming and "porcine stress syndrome" take the fun out of a ham sandwich. Yet In the Company of Animals is not intended to change our habits but to open our minds. Historians, psychologists, sociologists and Lady Beaverbrook may resent Serpell's romp...
...them real estate moguls, took the gamble and created the U.S.F.L. The twelve-team league opened in 1983 with a new twist: it played not in the fall but in the spring and summer, thereby testing aficionados' appetite for year-round football. Over the next two years, other fat-cat fans, including New York City's Donald Trump, bought in to swell the league to 18 franchises...
...similarly equipped courts in Phoenix and Detroit are part of a $75,000 experiment that may determine how the courtroom of the future will be set up. Says Jay Suddreth, president-elect of the National Shorthand Reporters Association, which is sponsoring the test: "Court reporters without computer-aided transcription (CAT) generally dictate their notes to a typist, who then types out the transcript. By linking the court reporters to a computer, we can put such waste and redundancy behind...
...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 minor editing...
Computer-aided transcription has paid off handsomely in some celebrated cases. The libel suit brought by retired General William Westmoreland against CBS generated 9,745 pages of transcripts in 68 days of testimony. Using CAT technology, Stenotypist Joel Hillman was able to produce printed transcripts of each morning's proceedings soon after the lunch break. Besides offering instant access to the record, the new bench-top machines provide an unexpected benefit. Judge Marshall, who at first found the terminals "distracting," has discovered that he can sometimes prepare for other cases during routine testimony, consulting the monitor from time to time...