Word: proofread
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...minimize errors-a major problem in back-office operations-the machine displays each message on its video-type screen so that the clerk can proofread it before pushing the "transmit" button. Best of all, the data is fed directly into a computer that automatically relays it to the proper branch office. The system thus eliminates one of the most time-consuming aspects of back-office paperwork: matching buy and sell reports from exchanges with each customer's original order and passing the word along to the salesman...
Strange as it may seem, it is editorial apprehension over the coming change that runs highest, and one of Diebold's staff has been moved to deflate the alarmists: "Stories must still be told through the minds of men. They must be edited; copy must be proofread. It is only the tools with which the editor works that are going to change." Amen...
...proofread the 500-word composition of today's high school student with his orally acquired vocabulary and sense of syntax requires 20 to 30 frustrating minutes; to read it for meaning of any kind, other than rudimentary structural coherence, is to undertake a task that itself has no meaning...
Variation & Affirmation. Last week "B.Q." sent out a three-page, single-spaced Christmas message (in verse) recounting a typical retirement year. Between crisscrossing the U.S. on translating assignments, he served as vice president of the Modern Language Association, proofread all its publications, and bounced into Washington to set up the U.S. Office of Education's first file of world languages. All this solo chore involved was a separate dossier on each of 4,300 languages and dialects, with 1,500 cross references to alternate spellings. Morgan did it in eight weeks...
...with immense care. For The Just and the Unjust he haunted the nearby Doylestown courthouse (it reappears in By Love Possessed), devoured legal tomes, listened to the shoptalk of the lawyers, finally became so adept that he was stumping" them on abstruse points of law. An Air Force general proofread Guard of Honor for boners, found not a single...