Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...academic pressures do lead many B-School students into trouble, said Leopold. In any given year, she said, 20-40 percent of a class may "hit the screen", which is B-School lingo for encountering academic troubles. Of this group, Leopold said that some continue at the school, while others are advised to leave...
According to several recent polls, Hampers' negative tactics helped her move up from "barely a blip on the screen," to a serious opponent who almost tied Crane in one poll. However, her popularity appears to have peaked already, as voters have begun to find her aggressive advertising offensive...
...addition, a computer valued at $2000 was stolen from Quincy House this week, sometime between Wednesday and Saturday, according to the blotter. Thieves forced open the window of the first-floor office and pushed in the screen to remove the Mode D Selectric Computer. Three suspicious-looking young men were seen in the area, but the police have no real leads yet, according to the blotter...
...late-night talk show does not air until Monday. Then a viewer has to outlast an ABC Monday-night football game that usually wraps up after midnight, a half-hour local newscast, Nightline with Ted Koppel and Nightlife with David Brenner before Breslin's mug finally appears on the screen, somewhere around 2 a.m. The graveyard shift has so annoyed Breslin that he complained about it in a New York Daily News column, implying that he will give up the show at the end of his 13-week contract. "I do not intend," he said, "to be publicly embarrassed...
That leaves students with the option of buying a variety of commercially available games. There are action and graphics games, in which the player or players see figures move on the screen and help control them...