Word: neatness
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When calendars go even further, they become systems. The Time/Design planner, for example, attempts to sort all the scattered details of an executive's life into neat compartments. The book contains more than two dozen forms for listing activities, to which the user assigns priorities by marking items with special symbols. A Santa Monica, Calif., firm called Insight Transformational Seminars sells the book for $300. The price includes a three-day seminar on how to use it. For $120, customers get a 30-page instruction book instead of the seminar...
Silkwood draws its power from its low-hayed approach to the story, the cast and crow rents the temptation to fabricate ridiculously tragic scenes of blatant corruption, Silkwood is no Chinn Syndrome, where Jane Fonda played an aggressive reporter investigating a neat melt-down at a nuclear reactor. Rather this film goes behind the scenes of life at a nuclear plant and subtly probes the intricacies concerning the operation and life of its employees. This film has no glamour, nor does it gloss over related event; the scene in which Silkwood's home is decontaminated for radiation poisoning is horrifying...
...community college and then, in 1980, transferring to Smith's innovative degree program for older women. For three days a week Palano lives on campus, taking courses paid for through a variety of grants and loans. "Just finding out your brain still works at this age is a neat thing," she says...
...most of his writing in a two-room cottage several hundred yards from the main house. "At this stage of the game I know it. I know there is no way out. You choose your prison, and I've tried to put mine in paradise." The room is neat and sparsely furnished. A worn book about Newark is at hand for reference, and a haunted Franz Kafka gazes from a prominently displayed photograph to remind the writer of paradise's alternative...
...California youths who were raided held a press conference at their high school to explain how the passwords they used for unauthorized break-ins had been provided by an anonymous computer-network buddy. "I was kind of naive," said David Hill, 17, of Irvine. "I thought, oh boy, how neat." After the FBI action last week, no one smart enough to get into this sort of trouble should be able to claim such ingenuousness again...