Word: penciled
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...opinion, staff members like to joke that "if it's bad for the country, it's good for the Nation." In a political age dominated by bloggers, conservatives and cable news, the Nation delivers a regular helping of unfashionably liberal journalism printed on gray butcher paper, lightened only by pencil drawings and the mordant poetry of Calvin Trillin. The formula is working: since the election of George W. Bush in 2000, its circulation has soared 96%, to 184,000; in 2004 the magazine enjoyed its best year ever, reversing years of losses to turn a profit...
Paper, like the Hubble Space Telescope and the Northern Spotted Owl, will soon become history. Harvard is following suit. In a dramatic overhaul of the existing system, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) has shifted away from traditional paper-and-pencil evaluations to entirely online forms, to be joined in 2006 by an exclusively online CUE Guide. But while the online system instituted this semester holds many potential advantages, it could also exacerbate problems with participation and statistical accuracy. Such issues should be addressed now before they have far-ranging effects...
This is the same creature who eats a pencil, a typewriter, and a phone, all while trying desperately to get a letter to Santa in “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.” Maybe little kids are getting dumber, but not only did I refrain from becoming a cookie fiend from this monster’s influence, I also never ate a typewriter...
...William Gray complained to Reagan about a radio address he had delivered criticizing the Democrats' budget proposal as "phony." Said Gray: "Look, it doesn't do either of us any good to describe our plans this way." The President was riled, but he did not actually throw down his pencil until two Senators, Republican Slade Gorton and Democrat Lawton Chiles, started to talk about the need for tax increases. Said Reagan: "You can't show me a time in history when a major tax cut did not result in greater revenue...
...private talk with Donald Regan, who conceded that tighter editing was required. Who will do it is the question. Regan has no time and little sensitivity to seek out nuances. There is no other senior aide with both the authority and the keen judgment to wield a blue pencil as effectively as Richard Darman, now Deputy Treasury Secretary, did during the first term...