Word: processor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...truth for our times is that some enraged genius is out there at this very moment, bloodying the keys of a word processor and hacking out the Moby Dick of divorce novels. But if only 50% of U.S. marriages end in divorce, why does it seem that 75% of new novels obsess on this deadly subject? Theodore Weesner is the latest good writer to prove that maundering in print about the nasty process of getting shucked is less likely to be entertaining than novelizing about salmonella...
...first Halper didn't want to accept her doctor's diagnosis: repetitive strain injury (RSI) caused by too many long hours at the word processor. Neither did the company, which she says accused her of exaggerating her symptoms to get out of work. According to Halper, RCA managers demanded that she withdraw a workers' compensation claim and tell her caseworker that the injury wasn't job related after all. When she refused, says Halper, they began a campaign of intimidation and harassment. They moved her into a smaller office. They excluded her from meetings. They asked her to take...
HASCS ordered a two-processor upgrade and more memory from Sun, the manufacturers of the fas machine, a Sun Spare 1000 with four processors...
...regulating. Among the items were $1,300 worth of pro-football tickets, plane rides and lodging. Espy had reimbursed his benefactors, but recently another gift surfaced -- a $1,200 scholarship Espy's girlfriend had accepted from a foundation controlled by Tyson Foods, the world's largest chicken processor. The White House had defended the former Mississippi Congressman for months, but the steady dribble of disclosures finally prompted the President to push him out. "I'm troubled by the appearance of some of these incidents," said Bill Clinton...
Also departed are Green's hulking desk and sleek, Powerbook. Carnesale said he will soon learn to use a word processor and answer his own electronic mail--he does, after all, have a background in science...