Word: stenotypist
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Even with computers, the stenotypist's technique remains the same. Pressing one or more letters on a 22-button keyboard, the stenotypist writes phonetically, omitting letters that are not sounded, or uses one of 3,000 standard abbreviations to represent a familiar word or phrase. For example, W stands for "with," KR for "consider." These abbreviations are printed on narrow strips of self-folding paper. In CAT systems, the keystrokes are also recorded electronically on a tape or magnetic disk, then fed into a computer that expands the stenographic shorthand into English and prints out a transcript that needs only...
Computer-aided transcription has paid off handsomely in some celebrated cases. The libel suit brought by retired General William Westmoreland against CBS generated 9,745 pages of transcripts in 68 days of testimony. Using CAT technology, Stenotypist Joel Hillman was able to produce printed transcripts of each morning's proceedings soon after the lunch break. Besides offering instant access to the record, the new bench-top machines provide an unexpected benefit. Judge Marshall, who at first found the terminals "distracting," has discovered that he can sometimes prepare for other cases during routine testimony, consulting the monitor from time to time...
...shadings were enough to muddle a stenotypist's ear, and in fact did just that. Dr. Walter Heller's remark at one point that "consumer satiety rears its ugly head" was transcribed as "consumer satanity." Dr. Heller was subsequently asked to define this interesting new economic concept. "The tendency of the consumer to be perverse-he sometimes thwarts us by refusing to react to certain things in the way we want him to," Heller quickly replied. Still, Heller maintains, there is basically no such thing as consumer satiation...
Macabre Medley. On trial at Chester last April were Ian Brady, 28, a misanthropic store clerk whose only previous offenses had been housebreaking and burying cats alive, and Brady's blonde mistress, Esther Myra Hindley, 23, a wheyfaced, bouffant stenotypist. They were charged with slowly killing a ten-year-old girl and two boys, twelve and 17, by suffocation and ax blows, among other means. Two of the victims were buried naked in the bleak Manchester moors, where Myra posed smiling over the graves for Brady's camera; the third corpse was found by police in Brady...
...school years. At 17, inspired by the inscription on his father's tombstone, he wrote his first song, To Know Him, Is to Love Him. It sold 1,200,000 copies and has become an alltime teen classic. Phil marked time for two years working as a court stenotypist. Then, at 19, he moved to Manhattan and tried to crash "Teen Pan Alley" only to discover that "95% of the music business is heavily infiltrated by morons. If they hadn't been so greedy and vicious, I wouldn't have tried to control them." Fortunately, as Phil...