Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, Scheir and Neighbor blamed eachother for printing an election manual onsingle-sided paper...
Nevertheless, Generation X has been anointed as the "On the Road" of our time. The media loves it because Coupland is thoughtful enough to turn the margins into a manual for the new age, full of improvised jargon and invented slang: "McJob," "recurving" and "cryptotechnophobia." Never mind that no human tongue, including Coupland's, has ever spoken these words; they are comforting grist for the media mill...
...report compiled by two senior doctors acting for the local health authority said many cancer patients had died because their radiation dosages had been miscalculated. In 1982 the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary bought a computer programmed to determine precise dosages for cancer treatment. But it arrived minus an instruction manual. Senior physicist Margaret Grieveson assumed that a "correction factor" needed to adjust the dosages had not been programmed in. Unfortunately, it had. The result: in the years from 1982 to 1991, 1,045 patients received insufficient radiation. Four hundred and one died; 91 who are still alive have experienced...
...Eventually it will give us the flexibility to change the meal plan," he said. "If everything were manual, there would be no way to keep up with...
Jobs are another important issue, especially for those looking for manual labor, according to Baldasaro. "There are no jobs," he says...