Word: handbooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stewart Brand, editor in chief of the Whole Earth Software Catalog. Brand's idea was to bring together, for the first time, people from several generations of hackers, and his guests included some of the brightest stars in computing: Ted Nelson, author of Computer Lib, a widely read handbook from the mid-1970s; Stephen Wozniak, who built the original Apple computer; Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Osborne 1; Richard Greenblatt, who developed the LISP machines used in artificial-intelligence research; and Burrell Smith, a one time Apple repairman who went on to build the Macintosh computer...
Currently, candidates for degrees cum laude must receive minimum grades "in at least two-thirds of the appropriate completed letter-graded courses outside the field of concentration," as stated in the 1984-85 Handbook for Students. The minimum GPAs for cum laude and magna cum laude degrees are B- and B respectively...
...decision seemed obvious. FBI agents said they had evidence that their Los Angeles colleague Richard Miller had turned over a bureau intelligence handbook to the Soviets. So Miller should be prosecuted, right? Well, in the world of espionage it is never that simple. For as long as there have been secret agents, officials have had to weigh two conflicting considerations: the importance of trying accused spies and the risk such trials pose to national security. In the view of intelligence agencies, courtroom disclosures can sometimes be as damaging as the original espionage. Says Joel Levine, a former federal prosecutor with...
Mating rituals on the college campus are reacquiring a rich patina of hypocrisy. "College students are much more conservative now than they used to be," says Lisa Birnbach, co-author of The Official Preppy Handbook and now creator of Lisa Birnbach's College Book. "There's more dating, more courtship, a return of women's 'reputations' and the good old double standard. People are still sneaking around to have sexual relations, but they don't talk about it. It's viewed as kind of'icky...
...tried to zero in on Reagan's competence and leadership ability rather than his years. The question, declared the challenger, is "Who's in charge?" Mondale accused Reagan of failing to exert control, specifically with respect to security measures in the face of terrorist threats in Beirut, a CIA handbook advising political assassinations, blackmail and kidnapings in Nicaragua, and fights within his Government about arms-control policy. Declared Mondale: "A President must not only assure that we're tough. [He] must also be wise and smart in the exercise of that power...