Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...VisiCalc income (more than $11 million) in their new company, Software Arts, with headquarters in an old chocolate-factory building outside Boston; the number of employees has already grown from the original two to 80. The company's latest program, called TK!-Solver, is designed as a modern "tool kit" for solving mathematical problems like those confronted by engineers and chemists. Says S Bricklin: "You can't just start in the garage as easily any more. The price of entry is going up and up because people are expecting so much from these products...
Before the House system the class that triumphed in intramural competition tool, on its Yale counterpart When Harvard switched to the House system, the battles with the men of New Haven took on their present form organization by residence rather than class. In those days teams played for the Edward Harkness Cup, atrophy that has since been lost...
...students, the fact that any policy has been enacted is a victory," a senior, Lisa P. Nazzaro, said. "It's certainly a workable procedure, but we still would like the panel's decision to have more authority, so that the panel isn't just an administrative tool," she added...
...Rauch's elaborate conception loses its oddity and begins to work like another part of the technologically miraculous set, whose pieces and extensions metamorphose into beds, bathtubs or starry summer nights without detracting from the matter at hand. Likewise as long as Rauch uses his endless vision as a tool and keeps it out of the foot lights, he can work miracles on stage...
Local officials were still sharpening pencils to tally results on election night when the networks started calling winners. ABC's analysts won the rush to judgment: they were first with projections in 33 races for Senator or Governor, vs. 17 for NBC and 16 for CBS. A crucial tool for the networks was the "exit poll" of randomly chosen voters at some ten to 75 precincts per state, for a total of up to 36,000 people per network. The technique was pioneered by CBS Pollster Warren Mitofsky in 1967; since the 1980 primaries it has been a favorite...