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When calendars go even further, they become systems. The Time/Design planner, for example, attempts to sort all the scattered details of an executive's life into neat compartments. The book contains more than two dozen forms for listing activities, to which the user assigns priorities by marking items with special symbols. A Santa Monica, Calif., firm called Insight Transformational Seminars sells the book for $300. The price includes a three-day seminar on how to use it. For $120, customers get a 30-page instruction book instead of the seminar...
...program allows students to start from the bottom up" in writing their papers. Bossert said, explaining that the notes can be structured to form the text. The program then allows the user to edit the paper...
Like women's fashions, computer buzz words change with the season and tend to hide more than they reveal. Last year's programs were all "user friendly," although many proved painfully difficult to master. This year, software is "integrated," which means that information from one program can sometimes be merged with data from another. Industry watchers are now getting a preview of the pet phrase for 1984. Two leading computer software companies, Microsoft and VisiCorp, are offering products with "windows," a system that lets users run several different programs at once, each displayed in a separate section...
...level of telephone bills after divestiture will depend on whether the user is an individual or a business, how many local and longdistance calls are made, over what distance and for how long. The entire philosophical underpinning of pricing phone services is changing, a departure much in line with the national thrust toward deregulation in many other fields. In essence, Americans are going to begin paying more and more of the full and true cost of phone services they use. At the same time, they will not pay as much for those they...
...patron blows into the $2,495 machine through a disposable straw. If the user is over the legal limit, the machine flashes a red-light warning that says, DON'T DRIVE. What happens after that is between the drinker and his conscience...