Word: laptopping
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...America's environmentally aware set. With a circulation of 400,000, the catalog offers everything for the energy-efficient home, including composting toilets, solar radios and wind generators in addition to solar equipment. Hot-selling items include fold-up solar panels the size of a briefcase that can power laptop computers. Technicians at Real Goods headquarters in Ukiah, California, stand ready to handle customers' questions and help plan alternative energy systems over the phone...
Dreyer added the latest changes by 8:30, copying the speech onto three small diskettes and the hard drive of his laptop computer. Clinton made more changes during his limousine ride to Capitol Hill; Stephanopoulos typed those directly into the TelePrompTer. What no one realized was that a White House communications aide had already accidentally merged the new speech with an old file of the Feb. 17 speech to Congress. Then they simply scrolled to the top of the document and waited for Clinton to begin...
...news to Gore, who didn't believe it at first. "You're not reading it," said Clinton. "Read it." Gore did, and then said, "I believe that's the February speech." Gore summoned Stephanopoulos, who scrambled to fix the mistake, eventually downloading the correct version from Dreyer's laptop. But for seven minutes, Clinton vamped with just notes. "I just kind of thought," Clinton told an aide later, " 'Well, God, you're testing me tonight...
...fall for a laptop. Laptops are older and heavier cousins of notebook computers. Although they look like notebooks, laptops weigh from eight to 18 pounds. Today they have been virtually replaced by notebooks, but some still sit on store shelves around and sell for irresistible prices. Avoid them. They are too heavy to travel with and too poorly equipped to be useful. And many of them can't run on batteries...
Gore will also present ideas for cutting red tape. There is, for instance, talk of issuing a government credit card that managers and employees could use to purchase laptop computers, airline trips or whatever locally, without going through the General Services Administration. Finally, the National Performance Review will urge personnel reforms. Among them: allow more raises and promotions within a job classification; and, yes, simplify and accelerate the firing process...