Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...progressive Lamplighter School in Dallas, the students are hard at work at their computer consoles, their faces intent in the reflected greenish light of the video screens. An eight-year-old types instructions that bring forth on the screen a figure of the space shuttle Columbia, complete with desert landing strip and disposable booster rockets. A nine-year-old pointedly picks apart the logic of one of his teacher's programs. Three-year-olds who cannot yet speak in complete sentences bang away at their keyboards, conjuring up electronic squiggles and squares...
...almost missed her cue. The fifth and last daughter in a family of 15 children, she grew up in Enid, Okla. (pop. 50,363), a town 65 miles northwest that of Oklahoma City whose residents are usually more intent on dealing in wheat, poultry and oil than nurturing opera singers. Her father, a Pentecostal minister, played a number of instruments by ear, and her mother, a nurse, was also a pianist. Leona inherited their musical gifts, singing in the church choir and dabbling with the violin. As a senior in high school, she once learned an aria from Aida...
...parliamentary ploy bears the sinister label of Königsmord (murder of a king), but the intent is entirely bloodless. As soon as Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's ruling coalition crumbled two weeks ago, Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl pressed ahead with his plan to become West Germany's first Christian Democratic Chancellor in 13 years. Rebuffing Schmidt's call for elections, Kohl prepared to introduce a rarely used vote of no confidence in the Bundestag to bring down Schmidt's minority government immediately. If his strategy works, Kohl will move into the modern glass-and-steel Chancellery...
...civil rights movement. Reviewing the record of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division since Reagan took office, a bipartisan task force of Washington lawyers charged last week that "the Administration has retreated from well-developed, bipartisan policies that it inherited from its predecessors." As evidence of its intent to enforce these policies, the Justice Department last week sought to join as plaintiffs blacks and Hispanics who have brought a discrimination suit against Chicago's new city-council districting plan...
...term comes from the Greek words for work (ergon) and law (nomos). It means designing tools and products for the ways in which people move and think, rather than forcing people to adapt to them. The intent is to reduce eyestrain, backaches and muscle cramps...