Word: manualed
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...Some of the men later make their way to the dance clubs, others to the billiard bars. As midnight approaches, carloads of women pull into the parking lots nearby. They fix their lipstick in the rearview mirrors and tease out their hair as if according to some military instruction manual. It's as if they're going into battle...
...here in Le Locle in 1999, their class contained 17 students. Seven are left today. They've spent the past year hand-tooling and assembling the 92 minuscule components that make up a Zenith Marine Chronometer - a complex piece of micro-engineering that is as technically obsolete as the manual typewriter. Yet nowadays, that kind of obsolescence fetches premium prices. "The boom today is in complicated mechanical watches for the luxury market," Antoniotti explains...
...S500 DVD Dream System ($600)--a souped-up sound system that features a DVD player, five 40-watt speakers and an 80-watt subwoofer. I had avoided home-entertainment centers because I figured the setup would be horrible; this one took me five minutes without once peeking at the manual, thanks to Sony's user-friendly design and attention to detail (down to the color-coded wires...
...Some of the men later make their way to the dance clubs, others to the billiard bars. As midnight approaches, carloads of women pull into the parking lots nearby. They fix their lipstick in the rearview mirrors and tease out their hair as if according to some military instruction manual. It's as if they're going into battle...
...year, pilots refused to work longer hours amid unexpectedly buoyant business. This summer the company decided to go all out to win. After talks broke down the pilots announced a disruptive ploy called "work to rule," which meant they would do all the safety checks in the pilot's manual, word-by-word, even if it delayed takeoffs and gummed up flight schedules?which is exactly what it did. Days later, a typhoon shut down Chek Lap Kok airport, totally disrupting air travel in and out of Hong Kong, and Cathay announced that the pilots' disruption only made things worse...