Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, closely measure how long individual clerks take to handle each customer and the amount of time the employee spends between calls. The computer takes note of any idle moment and measures lunch hours, coffee breaks and even trips to the bathroom. At grocery stores, optical scanners not only ring up prices but also tell a central computer how many items per minute the clerk is handling, as well as other information. Even in factories where employees operate complex electronic machine tools rather than keyboards, computers can monitor the equipment and alert management about slow or absent workers...
...Susan read The Great Gatsby and dubbed herself Sigourney (after the unseen aunt of Gatsby's sleek-snob lady friend Jordan Baker). "I was so tall," Weaver declares, "and Susan was such a short name. To my ear Sigourney was a stage name -- long and curvy, with a musical ring." For nearly a year after this self-baptism, her parents called her simply S, just in case the girl changed her mind, and her name, again...
...time with Lazard Freres, and Ira Sokolow, 32, a former vice president of Shearson Lehman Bros., were accused in a civil complaint drawn up by the SEC of conspiring with Levine, 33, a former managing director of Drexel Burnham Lambert, as part of an insider-trading ring. They allegedly enriched themselves by using or selling important advance information about companies and profiting on the movement of those firms' stocks...
...once a placid pond where Western powers could splash contentedly, encircled by a ring of friendly nations. The Philippines were American. Viet Nam (Indochina then) was French. Singapore was British. Indonesia belonged to the Netherlands. Then, after World War II, the slow move toward regional independence began. Today many of the small countries that dot the Pacific are fiercely nationalistic. Yet, at least for now, most of them remain closely allied with the West...
...count indictment alleges that between September 1982 and July 1985 Cantley and five of his accomplices, including Joseph Vito Mastronardo Jr., the son-in-law of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo, operated a $1 million-a-week, five-state gambling ring. They hid their profits, the indictment states, by changing cash into bank checks and money orders, which then made their way into numerous Shearson accounts. The funds were mostly used to buy municipal bonds. Thus the defendants allegedly managed to launder their gambling proceeds by putting them into legitimate investments...