Word: held
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last time these two teams met, it was a defensive-battle in the rain. UMass held Yohe and company to a single touchdown and won, 17-7. UMass was the last team to beat Harvard at home...
This new position is the third administrative post Fein, who has an M.B.A from Stanford, has held at Harvard. He served as publisher of Harvard Magazine and director of the Arnold Arboretum from...
...tables and recruit freshmen. That was a decision made by Dean of Students Archie Epps III--who forgot to notify student groups of the change--because they wanted to give "a new flair and new form of presentation" to the tabling. They sure did. The "Extracurricular Circus" was held last Friday night from eight to midnight. Of course, besides the fact that it may have interfered with the social plans of freshmen and upperclassmen who have better things to do on the weekend than read the literature of the Society for Creative Anachronism, there was the added problem that...
...accountant using a miniature computer keyboard and a pair of pencils to reach the keys. People afflicted with cerebral palsy prefer oversize keyboards with hard-to-miss, 2-in.-sq. keys. Quadriplegics, who can move only their heads, are nonetheless able to control a computer by using a mouth-held typing stick or a breath-controlled device called a "sip-and-puff " switch. Blind programmers often learn touch typing so they can enter data in the usual way; to read output they use VersaBrailles, Braille printers or voice synthesizers that pronounce the words in a computer monotone...
...machines would be much easier to use if computer makers took their needs into account. One pet peeve: control buttons that must be pressed simultaneously with other keys, causing no end of problems to people whose fingers cannot stretch across a keyboard. Similarly, onscreen visual cues and hand-held pointing devices designed to make computers "user friendly" now threaten to make them inaccessible to the blind...