Word: pencil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been no sign of bitterness with my growing success as a quoter. Actually, they're kind of my groupies as it were, and there hasn't been a day when at least one of the players hasn't come to practice with a tape recorder or a pad and pencil in hand begging for a sentence...
...House dining hall). While working on a Statistics 100 problem set, I gradually wake up to the reality that a large, grey rat (about the size of a fat guinea pig) is peering down at me from the nearby Coke machine. After a near miss from a No. 2 pencil, the rat hastily scampers behind the machine and out of sight. Although I will probably never know whether the two events are connected, about a week or so after this encounter, the Winthrop House Coke machine is out-of-order for several days...
...through the calendar, museums in the U.S. and abroad will be mounting shows that will attempt to map the many lines drawn by what Talbot boasted was "the pencil of nature." The first, and one of the most ambitious, is at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston until April 30 (stops in Canberra, Australia, and London follow). Curated chiefly by the collector Daniel Wolfe, "The Art of Photography: 1839-1989" is a thorough but not a definitive history -- one version of the story, splendidly but narrowly focused upon questions of style through the work of just 85 major figures...
...prohibition is a huge setback for the polygraph industry, which is expected to lose about 85% of its $100 million in annual revenues. But the new law is a boon for firms that offer two other character tests: pencil-and-paper quizzes and graphology, or handwriting analysis. Says Eric Zorn, senior vice president of the Jamesway discount-store chain: "I'm very unhappy about the new law, but I'm thankful we can still use written tests...
...pencil-and-paper tests proliferate, they could run into as much opposition as the electronic variety. Massachusetts has explicitly banned written character tests, and other states have laws that may curb their use. The House Education and Labor Committee has asked the Office of Technology Assessment to determine whether such tests are dependable gauges of integrity. "There's a tremendous disagreement about whether you can even measure honesty," says Wayne Camara, who develops testing standards for the American Psychological Association. But no one disputes that when honesty is lacking, the effect on business can be extremely expensive...