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Jimmy Carter uses one. So do Novelists John Hersey and Richard Condon. Every month more writers are discarding their pencils and typewriters for "word processors"-technical jargon for small computers with typewriter-like keyboards, electronic screens for scanning and manipulating text, units to store information, and high-speed printers. Like all other modern products, they come in a range of prices, from Apple's no-frills model at about $2,500 to the luxurious new CPT 8100. Cost of the machine, with a twin-head Rotary VII Printer that can switch instantaneously from roman to italic type or from...
Many prominent economists, such as James McKie of the University of Texas and Lester Thurow of M.I.T., argue that large-scale mergers can enhance industrial efficiency by creating economies of scale. In the jargon of management, mergers create corporate synergism: two plus two can equal five. Combining two companies under one management can reduce administrative overhead and bring fresh leadership to a tired company. The new firm can order raw materials in large quantities or use new technologies to reduce production costs. The result: lower prices and better goods for consumers...
...four Herriot books are bolts cut from the same Scottish tweed, carefully interweaving the local patois (Owt a gurt cow wi' nawbut a stone in t'kidney) and technical jargon ("You can get hypertrophy of the rumenal walls and inhibition of cellulose-digesting bacteria with a low pH"). Each volume has become increasingly formulaic. But it is Herriot's original formula, an unfailing blend of exotica-for The Lord God Made Them All, a recollection of trips to Russia and Turkey-and accounts of extraordinary happenings to ordinary people and creatures. Volume IV of the tetralogy offers...
...Moshe Shahal, a Knesset opposition party leader. His source: former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, who viewed the proposed strike as "adventurist." At roughly the same time, Begin's office received two additional intelligence reports that the Iraqis were prepared to activate the reactor (make it "hot" in technical jargon) as early as the first week in July. On June 5, Begin gave orders to launch the attack two days later. His day of decision was the 14th anniversary...
...changing so fast they reminded him of "numbers inserted on the old railroad departure and arrival boards." Says Senior Editor George M. Taber, who edited the cover story: "When we were growing up, investment decisions were made for a lifetime. Now we are bombarded with a cacophony of business jargon about various accounts and funds, which has created vast confusion, even though it is of great benefit for consumers...