Word: users
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...restricting the computer-deprived to the Science Center's time-sharing terminals, Harvard has replaced equal access to the means of production with avowedly separate but unequal facilities. The word processing available on these terminals, according to User Services Coordinator Eileen Honin, "is not a user-friendly type of thing" and presents some difficulties for students who are not science-oriented. "I can't make heads or tails of it," said humanities concentrator Sarai Brachman '88. With MacWrite, said Honin, "You don't have to know anything about computers...
...only $25, Bock and her assistant yentas will interview you and present you with a prospective mate. Jewish Introductions refunds $10 of the original fee if the user completes an evaluation of their service, not the date. Bock said that the organization, which is sponsored by the Hillel Council of Greater Boston, instituted the refund for constant feedback...
...sharing of needles among people who inject drugs into their bodies intravenously. An AIDS victim passes a needle to another drug abuser who uses it immediately; blood on the needle enters the second narcotics user's vein. Some 14% of the men and 53% of the much smaller number of women who have contracted AIDS in the U.S. got it this...
...player refuses to submit, he can be suspended and then appeal the suspension to a grievance board. The National Basketball Association permits a player to seek voluntary treatment without any penalty, but anyone who does not do so and is found by the owners to be a drug user can be prohibited from playing...
Ironically, the U.S. may have lost its standing as the world's prime outdoor neon user. That honor may now go to Japan, for elaborateness if not footage. Stern, the U.S.'s foremost neon historian and owner of Let There Be Neon, a Manhattan studio that designs for clients such as CBS and Sony, has seen international interest change even America's use of the form. Says he: "Times Square today is there for the Japanese chairman of the board who looks up from his limousine and feels that his product has arrived in the U.S. market...