Word: prewritten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...different era: the Big Boom. Economists chattered about a "plateau of permanent prosperity"--sound familiar? The men who wrote about business were either hacks in eyeshades or dandy dilettantes who looked like escapees from The Great Gatsby--or crooks. A couple of Journal columnists planted their bylines above stories prewritten by corporate flacks; crusading Congressman Fiorello La Guardia exposed them by producing the canceled checks that the writers had accepted...
Well-trained by my mother, I went to UHS, equipped with a note: "Hello. I lost my voice, and would like an appointment as soon as possible." I went to University Hall to pick up a document, and brought a similar prewritten note...