Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...class of injuries associated with minute, repetitive movements, especially typing. It has been around for at least a few hundred years in such fields as meatpacking, but only recently have cases mounted in number since the proliferation of computers and the high-speed input method of keyboard typing...
...ticketing, or electronic ticketing, is "much easier" than purchasing tickets over the telephone, according to a United Airlines representative who asked to remain anonymous. According to the representative, E-tickets have become the "preferred method of ticketing" because all one needs is a destination in mind, a credit card in hand and a computer at your fingertips. To purchase an E-ticket, a customer logs onto an on-line reservation service, selects the departure city, destination city and date of travel and then types his or her credit card number onto an encrypted web page. The E-ticket becomes reserved...
Though the popularity of E-tickets is quicklyrising, E-tickets themselves are not a newinvention. Value Jet introduced E-tickets as itsprinciple method of ticketing in the late 1980s tocut costs and to save money. The fad was picked upby American Airlines and then spread to the restof the airline industry. However, althoughE-tickets themselves are not new, the technology involved is. A revamping of E-tickettechnology has led all three major airlines to notonly encourage the use of E-ticketing but toendorse its use to all of their customers...
Most women when they're pregnant don't announce the impending blessed event by saying, "Yes, I'm pregnant. I couldn't be happier. But no, I'm not going to discuss the father, the method or anything of that nature." But that's how JODIE FOSTER, 35, announced her upcoming motherhood to columnist Liz Smith. The baby is due in September; Foster will meanwhile keep busy as a producer; her company, Egg Pictures, is currently incubating three pictures...
Well, sort of. In that era, TIME did use the term floater to designate a sort of utility infielder who moved from section to section as a replacement writer. The magazine was still rigidly divided into such sections as Education or Sport or Press--a method of organizing the week's news that Briton Hadden and Henry Luce had invented roughly 40 years before. In the jacket copy of my novel, I'd acknowledged that I was the newsmagazine floater referred to as having tried "to escape an overlong stay in the Religion section by writing 'alleged' in front...