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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thanks to new technology, advocates of the handicapped are now envisioning a world in which the blind will be able to proofread written work, the paralyzed will be able to use computers, and those with impaired motor skills will be able to use a keyboard with ease...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: A Brave New World for the Disabled | 8/5/1988 | See Source »

Before the advent of computer technology, the blind were unable to make corrections or proofread their work. Talking word processors now allow them to do this, Glass says...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: A Brave New World for the Disabled | 8/5/1988 | See Source »

...worked as an assistant at the Harvard Ukranian Research Center as a sophomore, where she researched and proofread articles about the Ukraine. As a junior, she served as an assistant to Professor Richard Zeckhauser at the Kennedy School of Government. Rodriguez has also interned at the office of the Commisioner of Banks, and has worked as an interpreter at Boston's Beth-Israel hospital, translating Russian, Spanish and German...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue jr., | Title: A Life of Breaking Down Barriers | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...only the schizophrenic commuter life and the problems of being a married student, but he also must cope with an unusual freshman experience. Freshman orientation was "weird because I felt so old," he says. Expository Writing was somewhat different for him as well because his wife typed and proofread his papers. He also does not eat in the Freshman Union because he prefers to have a full meal with his wife. DeGraw's freshman year has certainly been different from that of the average Harvard freshman, but his experience combines elements from the most of the varied lifestyles...

Author: By Michael A. Levitt, | Title: A House of One's Own: Off-Campus Life | 3/14/1988 | See Source »

Some Administration officials, following the Reagan ethos of privatizing the public sector, treated their Government jobs as private fiefs. At least Emanuel Savas, an assistant secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, preached what he practiced: he used his agency staff to type and proofread a commercial book of his titled, aptly enough, Privatizing the Public Sector. Some officials, having made financial sacrifices to go into Government, evidently felt entitled to recoup as much as possible. C. McClain Haddow, former chief of staff at the Department of Health and Human Services, was indicted last month for fraudulently obtaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morality Among the Supply-Siders | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

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