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Word: tediously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good taste and smell can increase appetite, terrible taste and odor, or one flavor eaten over and over, should be boring enough to decrease it. Last week, at an international conference on "The Determination of Behavior by Chemical Stimuli," a pair of biologists reported findings suggesting that any tedious diet helps weight loss. If it were possible to eat one food all the time, according to Israeli Nutritional Biochemist Michael Nairn, all but the genetically obese would quickly shed pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Nose Knows More Ways Than One | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...such an innocuous little piece of paper, the computer punch card has loomed large in modern life. When they first started fluttering out of bills and statements in the 1950s, the cards were hailed as harbingers of the computer age, a golden time when machines would take over the tedious work and free people for a fuller life. In the 1960s, though, the cards were transmogrified into the symbol of alienation in a society where machines had run amuck. The somewhat bossy injunction printed on the cards became a slogan of student rebellion: "I am a human being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dividends: Dividends | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...series of topical installments, suitable for use as a read-along guide to the path from "Not Fade Away" to "Start Me Up." Twenty Years doesn't offer too much analysis; its strength is Dalton's willingness to let the Stones and their intimates speak for themselves, sometimes in tedious, drug-muddled rockstarese, but more often in concise, intelligent English...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: The Roots of Stones | 11/7/1981 | See Source »

SoHo took up most of the third quarter and part of the fourth on a tedious, penalty-dominated scoring drive

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Kirkland Sneaks Past SoHo | 11/4/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Productivity Booster | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

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