Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undergraduates know, the one word Harvard won't allow its clan to forget is "diversity"--but diversity won't allow Harvard to forget its words either...
Many of the vendors displaying their wares are sure to have an adequate supply of the latest hardware and software to fulfill everybody's desktop publishing needs. From laser printers to page layout software, manufacturers are jumping into the business of selling publishing aids. It seems that word processing no longer provides the necessary quality, and so now companies are urged to produce their own `publication quality' documents in-house...
...Japanese have a new buzz word for this phenomenon: kokusai-ka (internationalization). Kokusai-ka refers to the host of efforts designed to deal with trade frictions, from opening the domestic market to foreigners to investing more heavily in public works, including bridges, highways and housing. The more philosophic interpret kokusai-ka as an end to Japan's historic attempt to remain separate from the world and the beginning of an opening of Japanese hearts and minds to the international community...
...hers. A lot of ink is wasted just getting these characters on the page. Given its initial investment, Bantam might have urged Beauman to save money by calling her romantic leads Ed and Helen. Anyhow, Edouard is impossibly rich and handsome; Helene is impossibly beautiful; together they are . . . a word comes to mind but then vanishes in the general miasma of implausibilities and sex, which is regularly rapturous and accompanied by sensations "smothering any ability to think...
...plate to mouth with chopsticks so that the dumpling remains intact with no loss of broth. The Westerner who can master the technique may be rewarded with a free meal, plus a tour of the kitchen, where workers grinningly pose for pictures and shyly call, "Hello," the one English word they seem to know...