Word: performer
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...devices for office or home are expected to reach 1.1 million by the end of this year, according to International Data Corp., a research company. But instead of shopping around for a particular machine made by Atari or Apple, canny consumers are first looking for the programs that will perform the specific tasks they most want done, such as letter writing or financial planning. Then buyers select the brand of computer that can operate that software. This year software sales for personal computers are expected to reach $590 million, an 82% rise over the past two years. By 1986 sales...
...advent of inexpensive computer power is altering offices, factories, schools and homes. But nowhere has that power made such dramatic contributions as it has in the world of the physically handicapped. Today paraplegics, quadriplegics, amputees and cerebral palsy victims are using computers to perform tasks that once seemed beyond their capabilities. Here are two young people whose daily lives have been transformed by the new technology...
...Allegheny General Hospital, a tube in his throat and a machine pumping air down his trachea. Rob had lost the use of his arms and legs, and his lungs were paralyzed as well. The doctors said that he would spend his life on his back, unable to perform the simplest tasks. But as his oldest brother, Gary, 27, recalls it, "Robbie never accepted .that he'd be in a wheelchair forever. And neither...
...choral activities, whose two choral groups, the Radcliffe Choral Society (RCS) and the Harvard Radcliffe Chorus are both preparing bona fide Christmas concerts for the coming week The Bach Magnificat in D has come to be a Mass that is especially good for Christmas, and the RCS will perform it next Monday with its traditional male counterpart, the Harvard Glee Club...
Religious imbalance of the season may be less noticeable than usual this year. As it happens, about 365 Christmas or "sacred" pieces of music have been written for each concert work with a Hannukah theme Nevertheless, at least one such piece exists, and the Collegium Musicuum is slated to perform it in Sanders on December...