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According to students who attended the lecture, Holsman, president of a California wire company, said Blacks would rather sell drugs than work. She reportedly said that whites felt degraded by manual labor and that Asian-American workers had a high turnover rate because they usually go on to banking...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Wellesley Trustee Resigns | 2/14/1987 | See Source »

Following the McDonald's formula, Ackerly eventually distilled her knowledge of "team cleaning" into a 300-page manual of dos and don'ts. The book serves as the basis for training new Mini Maid personnel. Among its teachings: pick up statuary in the middle, rather than at the top and bottom, and clean animal-skin rugs with a whisk broom rather than a vacuum cleaner. Sums up Ackerly: "The homeowner does not have to feed us, pick us up, give directions. We don't give a song and dance about our car breaking down as a reason for not showing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Customer Is Still King | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

Back in his office on the top floor of Widener, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus John H. Finley '25 has also continued to work regularly since his retirement in 1975. Amidst his cluttered desk and a collection of yellowing photographs, Finley, 83, either reads, or writes on his manual Royal typewriter, which he purchased years ago during his tenure as Eliot House Master...

Author: By William Pao, | Title: The Three R's of Retirement: | 1/30/1987 | See Source »

Setting up batch files requires typing all of the commands that the computer will execute into an ASCII file with the extension .bat. This can be done with an editor such as EDLIN (it comes with MS-DOS, see manual for instructions) or the SIDEKICK notepad...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Making an IBM Compatible User Friendly is as Easy as BAT | 1/16/1987 | See Source »

Finally, I submit that the Happy Hacker should try reading the manual. The example he gave was to change the Microsoft Word menu to allow command-key sequences--like hitting command-B to change to bold. Microsoft Word already has key sequences for changing the font to bold, along with just about every other command you could hope for. Another solution is to purchase a program called Tempo, which allows you to recall both key-strokes and mouse movements by hitting a command...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unhappy Hacker | 1/16/1987 | See Source »

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