Word: properly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...First Osborne Group, which is still going strong, with 15,000 members, a year and a half after Osborne Computer Corp. went bankrupt. The company, back in business under new management, once had 90 people answering help calls from users. Now it routinely refers these calls to the proper FOG chapter. Admits James Schwabe, Osborne's marketing vice president: "They probably do a better...
...status, as the checkout-counter newspapers constantly remind us, is no guarantor of happiness or security. Schickel reels off the familiar tragedies of those who found there was no room at the top: John Belushi, Freddie Prinze, Dylan Thomas, Janis Joplin, Marilyn Monroe. Yet some of the deceased, like proper legends, have regained their power in death. Humphrey Bogart is a greater celebrity now than when he was alive; so is John Lennon. The fade-out has become as important in life as onscreen; no wonder Hollywood repartee has become standardized: "Elvis Presley is dead." "Good career move...
...build up a library of digital templates, each corresponding to a particular computer instruction. Then, whenever he utters a command, the computer compares the incoming pattern with the templates stored in its memory. When it finds a pattern that matches its master's voice, the machine executes the proper command...
...sons and daughters of ghetto immigrants were well on their way to becoming deeply rooted members of the middle class. Their semiofficial arrival can be dated to 1955. That was the year Herman Wouk published Marjorie Morningstar, the best seller about a prodigal daughter who ends up a proper suburban matron...
...United Nations, the U.S. used its veto to defeat a Lebanese resolution condemning Israel's actions in southern Lebanon. The U.S. argued that the resolution did not take proper notice of the Israeli withdrawal and the cycle of domestic Lebanese violence. The veto angered Arabs in Lebanon and elsewhere, and spurred renewed threats against American lives and property. Security was tightened at American embassies in many Arab capitals, particularly Beirut. With the American naval vessels standing by offshore, the U.S. issued its announcement on Thursday that most diplomats were being withdrawn temporarily, leaving only a handful in Beirut, including Ambassador...