Word: placement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crisp appearance of each page is ensured only because coders endlessly scrutinize the placement of every bit of information. "We are completely involved in the visual detail of the page," says Gary Deaton, who supervises TIME'S crew of ten coders. "We pore over every millimeter of the magazine to make sure that everything falls in place, that border lines don't overlap and that pages have a uniform appearance...
...employers and job placement organizations have noticed a marked decrease in student applications for the hundreds of part-time positions available...
...nation we are getting very, very dependent on computers and telecom telecommunications says Cameron Carey president of the Computer Security Placement Service in Northborough Mass a headhunter company that finds executives for computer security firms. "Money markets and bank turn over their whole holdings every day: billions and billions of dollars. You can't write orders without a computer. You can't ask about inventories. If there's a disaster, some organizations are going to go out of business. The bottom line is that as companies automate more and more the tolerance for outtage decreases, the dependency increases...
...amount of pain it would cause for one more student to be added to a suite depends on such factors as height of ceilings, size of windows, and even placement of doors and closets, in addition to the amount of floor space in each room...
...There's no community," says one grad student. "A large part of your waking hours are spent with the same people." Yet the lounge was opened in Lehman Hall rather than Byerly last fall (14 years after it was first proposed), the placement service was merged with OCS-OCL, and the housing office was just farmed out to the Lehman Hall basement...