Word: thickets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most editors, it seems, now agree with Safire's argument that "it is unacceptable for journalists to dictate to a candidate that she call herself Miss or else use her married name." One way out of this thicket of titles would be for the Times simply to drop the use of honorifics altogether. But that course of action was rejected by News Editor Allan M. Siegal last week. Said he: "Everybody feels, I think unanimously, that that wouldn't sound like the New York Times...
Trade has been stifled within the ten-nation Community by a thicket of visible and not so visible barriers, like preferential government buying, which were erected to protect national industries. For example, Western Europe has nine different telecommunications switching systems. Says a senior Community trade official: "You can imagine what would have happened to Apple Computer if it had to fight such barriers in different American states." Economists estimate that Western Europe's patchwork of safety, design and technical standards represents the equivalent of an 8% to 12% tariff on all goods traded within the Community...
Many retailers are impressed with the manual for Apple's new Macintosh computer. Designed to be used with tapes and video displays, it guides Macintosh owners gently through a technological thicket. Says Chris Espinosa, 22, an eight-year Apple veteran who supervised the booklet's preparation: "A good manual is not a narrative; it is an outline or report. Nobody ever reads a manual cover to cover-only mutants do that...
...called on me for the first time in my new capacity. In a maneuver that was savored for its subtle nuances and vivid symbolism, Dobrynin's car was made to back out of the garage and proceed to the main entrance, where the flustered Ambassador dismounted into a thicket of microphones and cameras...
...TIME'S Los Angeles-based Show Business correspondent, Denise Worrell has often contended with the problem of gaining access to press-shy stars. "The hardest thing about reporting in Hollywood," she says, "is penetrating the thicket of people surrounding celebrities. Stars get heat rash in the constant glare of public scrutiny. If they do not have a thick skin, they get a thick entourage." Despite the difficulties presented by this fortress mentality, there is a need for it. Says Worrell: "Celebrities build barriers to protect themselves from the overcurious public. Unfortunately, a barrier can turn into a prison...