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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...
Basically, Halberstam has provided a thousand politicians and media junkies with Rolodex-files-full of inside stories and one-liners to try out on the chicken-and-green-beans circuit. The Powers That Be piles detail after detail, quickie quote on top of one-liner, superlative onto cliche, in an attempt to construct the ultimate tower of power. As in the case of an earlier group of tower builders aspiring to heaven, however, a divine curse (or was it hubris?) turned all the words into babble...
...entire Carter advisory operation to date is described by Schwartz as "building Rolodex files which provide instant access to a funnel of expertise...