Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Years ago, businesses began replacing their computers with large word processors. These dinosaurs, made by companies such as DEC, Lanier and Wang quickly were replaced by versatile micro computers, which could do more than simple word formatting...
...although dedicated word processors are a thing of the past, most personal computer users are still living in the dark ages; they use their computers only for writing papers and letters. The Happy Hacker certainly regrets this. The Happy Hacker regrets a lot of things recently, but he especially hates to see things with a lot of potential wasted over misunderstandings...
...again--another editorial turnaround that distorts the facts. The Crimson's editorial of 17 February asks students what they've gotten in exchange for their ten-dollar term-bill fees. After recognizing a long litany of Council successes last term, including the installation of $30,000 worth of new word processors for students in the Science Center, the extension of the dinner hour by 15 minutes, a successful Yale weekend, and eight well-attended milk-and-cookie breaks (the Ad Board reforms, the several pamphlets, and a number of other measures were not mentioned) the editorial slips into what seems...
Back in 1980, years before restructuring was a corporate buzz word, Firestone was practically inventing the idea. Unfortunately, the company is still working at it. Of Firestone's 17 North American tire plants, it has closed nine and sold another; the company has also slashed its payroll from 107,000 workers to 55,000. Yet the tiremaker's financial comeback remains around the corner. During fiscal 1986, which ended in October, Firestone posted $3.5 billion in sales but managed to earn only $3 million from its continuing operations. The company's chairman, John Nevin, admits that restructuring has ( an element...
...even greater. Biographer Goodwin navigates it swiftly. Like other historians, she finds the elder Kennedy's fingerprints all over the political controls. "It was like being drafted," J.F.K. later told Columnist Bob Considine. "My father wanted his eldest son in politics. 'Wanted' isn't the right word. He demanded it." He also molded the Kennedy image by promoting J.F.K.'s essentially ghostwritten Profiles in Courage and having his friend New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock lobby the Pulitzer board of advisers. The book won a Pulitzer Prize...