Word: rolodex
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other oddments from the time -- John John saluting at the funeral, Jack and Jackie on Cape Cod, who knows? -- bright shards that stimulate old feelings (ghost pangs, ghost tendernesses, wistfulness) but not thought really. The shocks turn into dreams. The memory of such pictures, flipped through like a disordered Rolodex, makes at last a cultural tapestry, an inventory of the kind that brothers and sisters and distant cousins may % rummage through at family reunions, except that the greatest photojournalism has given certain memories the emotional prestige of icons...
...with thumbnail biographies of figures making news overseas. "That guy isn't like that at all," he told an analyst who was profiling a foreign politician. "He goes back a long way with some of these cats," a senior official recounted. Two weeks ago, in a remarkable display of Rolodex diplomacy, Bush telephoned Kings Hussein of Jordan, Hassan of Morocco, Fahd of Saudi Arabia; Prime Ministers Turgut Ozal of Turkey and Margaret Thatcher of Britain; Chancellor Helmut Kohl of West Germany; Presidents Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Chadli Bendjedid of Algeria; as well as the Pope -- anyone who might have...
CLOCKS AND CALENDARS. Also selling well these days are some low-cost packages that equip personal computers with electronic versions of the aids found on conventional desktops: clocks, calendars, calculators, note pads, Rolodexes. Software that allows a PC owner to check the time, look up an address or remember an important luncheon appointment has been available for years. But switching from a clock to a Rolodex usually means shutting down one program and starting up another--a laborious exercise that generally is more trouble than it is worth. The key to these handy new programs is that they...
...acquisitions today-a helium-neon laser, a flow meter, some bookends, a Rolodex, a light table, a 3-ft.-tall thermos for liquid nitrogen, a massive pneumatically operated vacuum valve-will go into storage with the rest, waiting for a buyer. "I've got $20 million-that's Government cost, not mine-worth of stuff," says Grothus. "I'm looking for someone to sell it to for 10? on the dollar. I'm trying to sell it to the People's Republic of China. It's usable. It would fill the technical and scientific...
...skips breakfast in order to prepare for the morning law courses he teaches to 48 prisoners. After lunch, he does research until 3, when he is available in his cell for consultation with inmate clients. Long evenings are devoted to more research and legal reading, aided by a Rolodex that lists 22,000 criminal cases...