Word: laptop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Learning-disabled students are often provided with resources such as recorded textbooks, laptop computers for note-taking and exams and additional time on exams...
...room in bewilderment. The problem: the crucial paper was in Russian. The 2 a.m. meeting in Geneva last Thursday was so hastily convened that there had been no time for papers to be translated. Albright quickly summoned her translator, who dictated in English to an aide pecking on a laptop computer the words that would eventually head off--at least for a while--another military conflict...
...rate, it's unclear how effective industrial-era antitrust law can be in an age when any enterprising teen can, in theory, invent a new word processor on his laptop and kick Word's butt. The Web is the ultimate free market, whose invisible hand works with irresistible force, even on what seem to be immovable objects...
...lured them with a unique scheme: teachers in small clusters would be given 90 minutes a day of development time; $10,000 in "dream money" to spend on everything from books to software programs and from camping trips to birthday parties; plus access to an electronics bonanza of laptop computers, classroom phones, voice mail, television sets, vcrs, computer stations, scanners and laser-disc players...
...much of a leap for the '80s wunderkind who never really played their instruments anyway. In fact, judging from recent stints on Vibe TV and "The Tonight Show," it appears that Nick Rhodes' current instrument of choice has evolved from the synthesizer of yester-decade to the laptop computer of today, from which he magically generates sounds by waving his hands over the keyboard...