Word: clipping
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...m.p.h. clip, on highways and convenient side roads, leaves time for savoring the sights and smells of roadside flowers, corn-and wheatfields, and taking in the brassy greetings of small-town high school bands. Any number on the train started out in the far West. "My great-great-grandmother walked from Iowa City to Salt Lake City pulling a handcart with four children in it," says Ed Porritt, 41, an artist from Green River, Wyo. "I think about that and get out of the wagon and walk every time I can. I figure I've walked 1,300 miles...
...Boas and Steve Chain set out to write Big Mac: The Unauthorized Story of McDonald's they had their hands on what should have been the material for the modern success story. For McDonald's accomplishment has been compared to that of the man who invented the paper clip. They took the lowly beef patty and made an ideology out of it. How did dining under the heavenly golden arches become a transcendental experience, capturing national enthusiasm with a fervor surpassed only by the space program and World War II? How did just another greasy burger joint become a multinational...
...computer expert and lead us into what Grunwald describes as the "promised land of interface and input" sans the jargon. We are almost there today, thanks to Boyd, who developed a sophisticated computer-driven editing and typesetting system that processes copy at a 4,200-word-per-minute clip. Actually, Boyd retired once before, but was asked to come back. His second retirement date seems scarcely more credible than the first, but he insists, "This...
...access to information it has a right to have. ABC-TV, as a part of a 1973 documentary on fire hazards, had a segment showing a flaming plastic crib; the crib manufacturer, alleging potential damage to the firm's reputation, got a judge to order the film clip removed only hours before the broadcast. ABC excised the scene but fought the case successfully; nine months later the disputed film was shown on the evening news...
...Bowdoin letter mentioned that the thieves may have used a book, "The Wood Engravings of Winslow Homer," as a guide in selecting prints to clip...