Word: directed
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Gateway is the No. 2 direct marketer of personal computers, behind powerhouse Dell Computer ($7.8 billion in sales last year). Gateway's 500 salespeople work the phone banks 16 hours a day, filling PC orders for individuals and small businesses and helping them troubleshoot their equipment. Since selling initial shares to the public in 1993, Gateway has seen annual revenues triple, to more than $5 billion...
Entering New York University's film school this fall, Lewis now aspires to write and direct...
...specialism is the enemy of "direct, unscholarly, unpedantic enjoyment, discussion and criticism" of the arts, humanities, and sciences, as Barzun puts it, what are their friends? I suggest that they are the skills (Barzun would say "powers"), habits and sensibilities that enable enjoyment, discussion and criticism. I suggest that core courses should seek to promote these central enabling skills, habits, and sensibilities; and that they should do so in broadly interesting and important substantive contexts...
...some readers may have noticed, there was a word that I actually didn't write. The word I did write disappeared somewhere, down the drain, wherever RAM goes when you turn the computer off. Apparently that word can only appear on a news page if it's in a direct quote, and quoting myself doesn't seem to be an option. So that it would not be missed, it was conveniently replaced by "fornicate with." I think the sutures showed...
...many of us at this age sit on boards and commissions to talk about what to do with our youth without much direct contact with them," Selby says...