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SoHo took up most of the third quarter and part of the fourth on a tedious, penalty-dominated scoring drive
...achieve that result, however, the city annually puts up with the tedious ritual of counting votes according to the PR scheme. It takes a week or more, and to pass this time of political anxiety more easily, city pols annually turn the tabulation process at the Longfellow School into something of a social event...
...sort of worker backlash that might have been expected. Adapting to the new techniques was initially difficult, but now many of the draftsmen disdain the traditional drawing board. Says Ron Hendricks, 25, a Koltanbar draftsman: "I prefer what we have now. It takes everything out of drawing that was tedious. We never have to start from scratch any more." Adds one of his co-workers happily: "Once you learn how to use the system, it's great." Koltanbar's principal customer seems to think so too. At the GMC Truck & Coach Division plant in Pontiac, Mich., where...
Until recently, personal computers were owned primarily by technical specialists who wrote their own programs. But the small size and lower cost of the new microcomputers have attracted new buyers to the market, people who do not want to spend days, or even months, of tedious work writing a computer program. As a result, the business of supplying prerecorded software for the micros has grown from almost nothing in 1977 to an estimated $250 million this year, and sales of $1 billion are projected for 1985. Says Jean Yates, a senior analyst at Gnostic Concepts, a consulting firm based...
...Jordan Screenplay by Neil Simon It's been coming for some time, but with the release of Only When I Laugh one can make the statement definitive: Neil Simon has ceased to be a relatively harmless, relatively cheerful pop entertainment phenomenon. He is now an imposition-and a tedious one at that...