Word: move
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apocryphal story has it that when professors planning to move to Washington for the Dukakis Administration line up for the ride, the Greyhound bus they expected will be replaced by a jeep, and a small one at that...
...Jewish, you really only get three days of shopping period, because of Yom Kippur, which falls on Wednesday this year. Harvard reacted to these scheduling conflicts with typical aplomb; it ignored them, although it did manage to move freshmen registration to Sunday because Rosh Hashanah fell on a Monday...
...America works, are now becoming available to the 13 million handicapped Americans of working age. In the past, efforts to help the handicapped tended to be overambitious and prohibitively expensive. In one much publicized experiment, quadriplegics have "walked" with crutches or walkers using computer-stimulated electrical impulses to move their stricken legs. But even by the most optimistic estimates, it will be many years before such devices are widely available...
...mobility was severely impaired by muscular dystrophy, has worked for three years as an accountant using a miniature computer keyboard and a pair of pencils to reach the keys. People afflicted with cerebral palsy prefer oversize keyboards with hard-to-miss, 2-in.-sq. keys. Quadriplegics, who can move only their heads, are nonetheless able to control a computer by using a mouth-held typing stick or a breath-controlled device called a "sip-and-puff " switch. Blind programmers often learn touch typing so they can enter data in the usual way; to read output they use VersaBrailles, Braille printers...
President Bok and Dean of the Kennedy School of Government Graham T. Allison '62 have joined in the speculation about how many Harvard professors will move to Washington after the presidential election...