Word: commanders
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...hazard of the profession, the Andover-Princeton educated Stella does a fine job of explaining how Caravaggio's painting surpassed the tradition of trompe l'oeil--literally "fool the eye," meaning those paintings designed to be mistaken for real. Stella believes Caravaggio's greatest accomplishment was in his command of space, painting figures that not only look three-dimensional, but seem to expand out of the front and back of the canvas...
...past few years, Congress is likely to reduce the President's defense request and insist on fewer cuts in social programs. Since the Democrats have taken control of the Senate and already command the House, Reagan will find it more difficult than ever to get a budget that even remotely resembles his original plan. Though James Miller, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, maintains that the President's budget is "eminently doable," critics are labeling it "dead on departure...
When they were not talking to the Soviet press last week, the emigres tended to cite personal reasons for their return. Many felt isolated from American society and frustrated by their rudimentary command of English. Some Soviet professionals found themselves driving cabs or performing menial tasks. Others were attracted home by siren calls from Moscow. "There will be a big change in status for some," said Alex Goldfarb, a Soviet-born assistant professor of microbiology at Columbia University, whose father recently joined him in New York City. The younger Goldfarb said that returning emigres would be able to buy elite...
Another way to improve a program's useability through ResEdit is to completely change around the command key options. In Word, for example, the Happy Hacker has given command key options to all of the selections on the Character menu (such as Bold mentioned earlier) and also to the choices on the Paragraph menu (Left-Justify, Center...
ResEdit can also be used to play around with the fonts, editing them in a similar way to the Fatbits command in MacPaint (this is also how icons are modified in ResEdit). Thus some of the uglier letters in the London font can be cleaned up. More practically, this feature is useful for creating special characters, such as logical notation symbols, within standard fonts. On one of the Happy Hacker's disks, there are no more asterisks in Geneva and New York instead there is the often-used `existential quantifier' symbol (an oversized backwards E that is a favorite...