Word: paragraphs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study is grossly flawed and inaccurate. The republication charge is absurd. The relationship between my two studies is indicated in the opening paragraph of the second article," he said yesterday. "Many of the errors they cite are not errors at all and others were trivial or typographical mistakes...
...improve a program's useability through ResEdit is to completely change around the command key options. In Word, for example, the Happy Hacker has given command key options to all of the selections on the Character menu (such as Bold mentioned earlier) and also to the choices on the Paragraph menu (Left-Justify, Center...
Does that sound like the Stephen King of the supermarket rack? The man behind Maximum Overdrive, behind Children of the Corn? Doesn't, does it? Well, that is the opening paragraph to "The Body", the autobiographical story on which Reiner's movie was based. Stand By Me actually glosses over the nuance and depth of King's story. It distills and condenses it into the spoon-fed medium of a two-hour flick...
...took only a single paragraph (four sentences, 91 words) to change the course of an ancient debate. "There is now no doubt," said Surgeon General C. Everett Koop in his grim report on AIDS last month, "that we need sex education in schools and that it must include information on heterosexual and homosexual relationships." With characteristic bluntness, Koop made it clear that he was talking about graphic instruction starting "at the lowest grade possible," which he later identified as Grade 3. Because of the "deadly health hazard," he said later, "we have to be as explicit as necessary...
...trying simultaneously to maintain its security in a hostile environment and to preserve its liberal ideals and aspirations. In describing the lack of awareness of the Holocaust--the basis for the existence of the Jewish state--among Arabs, Shipler captures the underlying tension of Israeli society. But this paragraph, the most important and perhaps the best written in the book, is as isolated in Arab and Jew as Israel is in the Middle East...