Word: standardization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bramson, whose campaign for the machines began last fall, said a standard procedure for vending companies that do business with Harvard is causing the delay. But he declined to provide further information, saying, "there may not even be a problem...
...Jackson has a very legitimate shot at winning the party's nomination. And it's about time that the media, Democratic party officials, and the other candidates start taking Jackson, his record, and his views seriously. As Rep. Thomas Downey (D.-N.Y.) pointed out, there's a racial double standard protecting Jackson, who has so far been given a "free ride on some very controversial issues...
...Quakers, coming off of an 12-11 loss to Yale, were hungry for an Ivy League victory. The Crimson had just returned from its spring trip to Arizona and appeared to still be on Pacific Standard Time, sleeping through the first half...
...Bingham fortune, in fact, was newly minted, and under suspicious circumstances at that. After Barry's mother died, his father married Mary Lily Flagler, 49, the widow of Standard Oil Tycoon Henry Flagler and reputedly the country's richest woman. An alcoholic who may have been addicted to morphine, Flagler died less than a year later. Flagler's relatives suspected foul play, but Brenner argues persuasively that the only certainty is that Bingham was "dangerously irresponsible toward a very sick woman...
...center of the conflict is the part of a computer that is most visible to the user: the words and pictures that appear on the screen and the commands by which the machine can be made to do one's bidding. Conventional computers, including the industry-standard IBM PC, are controlled by entering commands letter by letter on the computer's typewriter-like keyboard. The Mac, by contrast, uses artful screen displays to create the visual illusion of a desktop littered with objects and documents that can be selected and manipulated with a "mouse," a handheld pointing device...