Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Help those with RSI to recover. In the Adaptive Technology Lab (ATL), the work center for those with disabilities, and Lamont, three computers have dictation software, but it is very out-of-date. The program requires each word to be spoken individually, and it takes several frustrating hours to dictate a single page. A much better program exists (Dragon NaturallySpeaking), is inexpensive ($170 for the multiple-user edition) and allows one to write papers at roughly the same speed as one would type them. The program should also be available for use in all House computer labs--accessible to anyone...
They always said they were doomed, the bright young hackers who made Netscape Communications the fastest-growing software company on the planet. It was their unofficial slogan: "We're doomed!" It was whispered over high fives in the hallway. It was the sign-off at all-hands meetings, the spoken and unspoken message of the day. "We're doomed...
...Slide, without transition, into singing softly or humming, as if the soliloquy were simply the spoken part of a musical performance, like an opera. In this way, you give the performance an obscurely higher purpose, as if it were a rehearsal that the bystander was fortunate to overhear...
...Ellen Dever [Shah's divorced wife], to would-be protective parents and to abused children everywhere, taught me that you are not reputable or even truthful. My second husband, Johnny, was a good-hearted and loving man. Despite what Steve Lopez wrongfully implied in his article, I have never spoken in disparaging terms of Johnny. He was suicidal when I met him. He took his own life because he could not control the changes that he so desperately wanted to make. Lopez twisted my bittersweet memories of Johnny and falsely implied that I stood by callously as he ended...
...editors of the New Republic, the famously vociferous magazine of Washington opinion, like to think of themselves as a gimlet-eyed bunch. But when it came to reporter Stephen Glass, their vision was blurred. They regarded Glass, an eager and soft-spoken young man of 25, as a rare talent, able to land the kind of juicy fly-on-the-wall stories that make editors light up. "Steve was someone who could get into rooms other reporters couldn't get into, and come away with quotes and anecdotes the others couldn't get," says Glass's mentor, former New Republic...