Word: tome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems. MicroPro International estimates that 70% of the customers who dial for help are first- time users who find reaching for the phone easier than wading through pages of instruction. Says MicroPro Manager Lee Lensky: "People don't want to read a manual, whether it's a 300-page tome or a clean, well-written...
...POLITICAL dust stirred up by David Stockman's kiss-and-tell blockbuster, The Triumph of Politics, has just about settled. A 1000 cc. does of wisdom, too little, too late, Triumph is the first weighty tome in what is sure to be a continuing series of mea culpas and finger pointing organized around the theme, "Where the Reagan Revolution went astray." Despite some of the most successful politicking ever to emerge from the Oval Office, Reagan's ambitious plans to reform America in Ayn Rand's image have stalled in a pool of red ink, victim of the pragmatic wheel...
...council members evidently see cute moves, or at least expensive cute moves, as adequate attention to the students who make possible grand political discussions and the drafting of endless amendments to the student government's tome-like by-laws...
Melendez, who wrote the government's tome-sized by-laws as a freshman and says he typed over 80 percent of its reports and announcements last year, proudly says that the council has gone from being a special interest-oriented to a task-oriented group during his four years as a member...
These changes have also rendered the traditional campaign tome largely obsolete. With tempestuous demographic and geographic upheavals in progress--i.e. Jesse Jackson, Gary Hart, the fundamentalist Right, the Sun Belt majority--campaigns today are roughly analogous to surfing. Catch your demographic wave and hang on for the ride. The story of the Hart campaign was not how he won the New Hampshire primary, but how he failed to take advantage of the electoral groundswell in his favor. The story of Alan Cranston's failure was not his ridiculous one-note (later two-note) campaign, but the utter lack...