Word: extract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boon to executives with a voracious need for information about the state of their businesses. But some managers complain that computers are simply too hard to use. Mervyn Weich, 44, senior vice president of Zayre Corp., a retailing chain, says sitting in front of a terminal and trying to extract information is unacceptably difficult and time consuming. "If I could talk to the computer as easily as I talk to my administrative assistant, yes, I'd use it," he explains. "But it's a lot of work to punch in questions. My assistant is easier to work with...
...ideal of capitalism is to generate long-term wealth for the general welfare. Unfortunately, in everyday practice capitalists extract as much short-term profit as possible. As America concentrates more of its wealth in fewer but larger corporations, we will forsake our moral strength and ethical honesty. Novak may believe what he has written. However, his theory abandons all values save that of the dollar...
...money. Yet it is not at all true with books. For some reason a book borrower feels that a book, once taken, is his own. This removes both memory and guilt from the transaction. Making matters worse, the lender believes it too. To keep up appearances, he may solemnly extract an oath that the book be brought back as soon as possible; the borrower answering with matching solemnity that the Lord might seize his eyes were he to do otherwise. But it is all a play. Once gone, the book is gone forever. The lender, fearing rudeness, never asks...
...study's conclusion is the first to question the merits of the widely-used drug--an extract from the foxglove plant--which has been used against heart disease since the late 18th century Digitalis is now prescribed to over one million patients in the synthetic form dixogen...
Unaccustomed to assistance from terrorists, some officials wonder if the jailed Red Brigades may actually be spreading false information in order to confuse their captors. Cesare di Lenardo, a duro arrested in the Dozier kidnaping, accused the police of using torture to extract information. More likely, the spate of confessions is due in part to a proposed new law that could reduce the sentence of cooperative prisoners found guilty of murder or kidnaping to as little as twelve years. Most of the information provided by the terrorists has proved accurate...