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...teach the triangular Logo turtle a new command-in effect, to write a computer program-the child simply types the word TO followed by some step-by-step instructions. For example, here is a program that tells the computer to draw a circle on the screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Easy Does It | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...Minister William Whitelaw, are anxious to keep the avenues for a diplomatic solution open to the very end. They also fear heavy British casualties. Accordingly, they made a bargain with Thatcher, trading their support of her tough stand on the question of Falklands sovereignty for her acquiescence to the step-by-step invasion. Says a senior British Cabinet minister: "On this basis we will enter this fray as a united Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falkland Islands: Teetering on the Brink | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

...start will not finish until after "many years of concentrated effort" at best, the appeal of a treaty to which Moscow has already agreed is not negligible; such items do not grow on trees. In trashing the SALT process, Reagan is also setting an unhealthy precedent. No long-term, step-by-step arms control or reduction is going to take place if every administration wipes out the progress that has preceded it and spends a year-and-a-half to start from scratch...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: A False START? | 5/13/1982 | See Source »

...Conyers bill has little chance of passage in either house, but it is expected to serve as a rallying point in the campaign to stop S. 1630. If that goal is achieved, the best we can hope for is a careful, step-by-step elimination of the contradictory, anachronistic aspects of the existing criminal code, because, at the moment, drastic action in this area will almost certainly have dangerous results...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Threat To Liberty | 2/24/1982 | See Source »

...notes that within seven months of group sessions, women who had been vomiting for five to seven years respectively had resumed eating normally, and that similar sufferers of 11 and 13 years have drastically curtailed their habit. Carni emphasizes, however, that group sessions are not for everyone. The slow, step-by-step recovery can be painful and difficult, bringing problems to the surface which for years have been submerged under an obsession with food...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Living to Eat | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

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