Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assertion that all human knowledge is encodable in streams of zeros and ones?philosophically, that's very hard to swallow. In effect, the whole world is made to seem computable. This generates a kind of tunnel vision, where the only problems that seem legitimate are problems that can be put on a computer. There is a whole world of real problems, of human problems, which is essentially ignored...
Life at Apple has been tough for some to swallow. Following the initial problems with the Apple III, the company president fired some 40 employees and was in turn dumped by Jobs and current Apple president A.C. ("Mike") Markkula. Steve Wozniak drifted into conspicuous retirement and last year staged a rock concert in the Southern California desert. Some oldtime employees have not shared in the corporate bounty. Says one: "I wasn't obnoxious enough to make myself a millionaire." Jobs drives the staff hard, expecting long hours, high productivity and indefinite patience with his scattershot ideas. "He should be running...
...through Squid & Spider (Prentice-Hall; $10.95). Guy Billout imagines the passenger list for a new ark: 800,000 insects; 8,580 birds; 6,000 reptiles. On the way, he renders the fauna with his dazzling high-tech style. The text brims with trivia guaranteed to hypnotize the young: crocodiles swallow stones to aid digestion; giraffes give birth standing up; the sperm whale can hold its breath for an hour. No illustration is more comically apropos than the one of St. Nicholas pulled by a sole reindeer. As wolves pursue his sleigh, Santa diverts them by tossing wrapped packages overboard. After...
...hardest thing of all to swallow is hip talk...
...what the President planned to cut." Appropriately, the President's first round of budget discussions was scheduled for Election Day. Many of Reagan's closest advisers privately hope that the President will decide on his own to raise taxes or cut increases in defense spending rather than swallow a 1984 deficit that could top $175 billion. It is not lost on them that the President's budgetary decisions in the next few weeks may be his last chance to turn the economy around...