Word: disappearance
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Paper clutter will disappear as home information management systems take over from memo pads, notebooks, files, bills and the kitchen bulletin board. Michael Dertouzos, director of M.I.T.'s computer-science laboratory, keeps in his home computer all financial data, income tax records, things-to-do lists, appointments, phone numbers and the equivalent of a desk calendar. His children even compose their Christmas cards with the help of the ever obliging minicomputer...
...power supplies in these "parking" or bits. These highfliers may circle the earth safely for up to 10,000 years, and while their radiation will not have decayed completely when they start to come down, its potency will be sufficiently diminished so that the danger is likely to disappear...
Reluctant witnesses, who tend to disappear, thus scuttling the prosecution's case, are cajoled into court. Several prosecutors have allowed defense attorneys to look through all police evidence against the suspect in an "open file" policy, to prevent long courtroom delays for "discovery." Says Washington Attorney Charles Work, who started the program in 1975 when he was with LEAA: "These cases get the same attention they'd receive in a small town. It's not a concentration of resources against an individual. It's a simple effort to keep the important cases from falling apart...
...independence is too strong to disappear or even diminish significantly when some other President succeeds Carter. This means that it has become more difficult to govern, and it will get even more difficult in the future...
...Heller, president of the West Haven (Conn.) Federation of Teachers. The decay in decorum can be traced back to the mid-'60s, when the civil rights movement and Viet Nam protest sparked a general distrust of authority. "The unspoken sense of distance between teacher and student began to disappear, and students felt they had a license to behave any way they wanted," says Geraldine Han, who has taught social studies in New York City for 17 years. Han is recuperating from an attack last September, when a 15-year-old boy karate-kicked her in the spine...