Word: containable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...franchises with an unusual mixture of strict regimentation and entrepreneurial freedom, a style handed down by the late company founder, Ray Kroc. On one hand, McDonald's is a stickler for uniformity, indoctrinating its future managers at Hamburger University, where they learn that a 5-gal. pickle pail must contain at least 3,000 slices. On the other hand, McDonald's realizes that corporate headquarters is not always the best place to come up with market-sensitive ideas. One object lesson was a headquarters brainstorm years ago known as the Hulaburger, a pineapple-and-cheese combination that flopped...
...Dartmouth students from all four years live together in "clusters," groups of two or three dorm buildings that contain 75 to 100 students each, seeming to from the equivalent of a House within the College...
Political consultant Michael Goldman said yesterday the bill does contain "other projects that are a little questionable in nature." He said that Massachusetts received a leaner portion than many other states, as its funding provides mostly for necessary repairs on the highway system...
Attempts by North to alter, and perhaps even delete, certain key files may have been foiled by another feature of the system. Like most computers, the NSC mainframe deletes electronic documents not by obliterating the data they contain, but by removing their file names from a central disk directory. The body of information remains intact indefinitely -- or until the space it occupies is written over with new data. Thus a resourceful programmer, armed with a description of a document that has been zapped, can often resurrect it from the disk. "We were living under a delusion," admitted one Administration official...
Newspaper office computers are frequent targets for prying. One reason: news organizations make extensive use of open telephone lines to transmit and receive electronic messages. In addition, notes Geoffrey Stokes, press columnist for New York City's Village Voice, "We are all professional snoops." Stokes' columns frequently contain items leaked to him from the computers of the large New York dailies. Last year he gleefully printed a memo purloined from the New York Times revealing that Arthur Gelb, one of that paper's top editors, asked a Paris reporter to investigate the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident on Russian...