Word: tediousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
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...
...result of its limitations, the Gazette can get tedious, and Lord is the first to admit it. She still giggles over a Lampoon parody of her paper: "page after page, a boring list of names--'The Gazette Announces...'it was excellent." Yet she expresses a good deal of pride in the publication as well: "We view ourselves as a very proper, mellifluous Bostonian: sensationalism is not our thing." The perfect University PR people are "writers who love Harvard, who love the written word, and love to do features," she says. Under Lord's direction, the Gazette has spruced...
Canning replied, 'You were brief.' 'Ah,' said the preacher, 'I always like to avoid being tedious.' Canning replied, 'You were also tedious.' So there is no absolute guarantee of success...