Word: edition
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...field of telecommunications alone, AT&T already has under development such 21st century-sounding devices as phones that use miniature display screens to identify the source of a call before the receiver is answered; phones that can edit out and block pre-selected callers from reaching a person's number at all; phones that can even double as personal desktop computers. Also in the works is a broad range of video phones for offices and, most exotic of all, portable and cordless little devices that can provide instant direct-dial access to telephones around the world. Beyond telecommunications, divestiture...
Attenborough, 55, is an ideal guide through the millenniums. An amateur zoologist from childhood, he helped edit books on natural history before joining the BBC in 1952. When the host of a natural history series called Zoo Quest died in 1956, he was the logical replacement...
...redesigned, starting with the cover, whose thick green border confused readers and newsstand dealers; it was hard to tell issues apart. Rense anticipates "close, intense involvement with Geo for the first six months," returning from Manhattan to her home in Beverly Hills most weekends. She will continue to edit Architectural Digest and Bon Appètit and entertain on both coasts. If that is not enough, she has begun test studies for new magazines on collecting and travel. "I rarely feel overwhelmed, though," she says. "When too many things go wrong, I just eat two pints of ice cream...
Designers can pull their drawings apart, enlarge details, apply colors, change shapes, test them under mathematically simulated conditions and edit and modify them. When the work is finished, the computer then stores the results in its memory much as a word processor files office memos or reports for later retrieval. When needed, a touch of a button recalls the most elaborate designs, from the surface of a semiconductor chip to the layout of a sprawling petrochemical complex, back to the screen for examination and perhaps revision...
...been hearing from the highest-principled people in the world," Bradlee says sarcastically. "They raise the question: Is a gossip column fit for human consumption in Washington, D.C.? Gossip is the biggest industry in town! I don't want to edit the dullest, stuffiest, intellectualist paper around...