Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increasing dominance of CBS's largest stockholder (he controls 24.9% of the outstanding shares) was underlined once again last week. As Tisch and Paley emerged from a three-hour regular monthly session of the 14-member CBS board, word spread that directors had once again avoided choosing a Wyman successor. A seven-member search committee, headed by former Defense Secretary Harold Brown, has met three times so far but has set no deadline for its task. The main reason for the committee's lassitude is that Tisch is not yet finished with his task of reorganizing the company...
...messages keep coming at Ronald Reagan, from friends, senior leaders of both parties, veteran public officials belatedly summoned to provide outside counsel, even his wife. Their essence can be put in one word: act. Fire Chief of Staff Donald Regan or CIA Director William Casey, or both, as proof that the Administration intends to make a fresh start. Call the key figures in the Iran arms-contra funds scandal, Oliver North and John Poindexter, into the Oval Office and demand from them an accounting of their activities. But above all, do something. Don't just wait for inquisitive journalists, congressional...
...unwise to write off an army that has repeatedly shown staying power, if not fighting prowess. Indeed, in Nicaragua, there is talk that Honduras' recent attacks were a diversionary tactic to allow the contras to infiltrate Nicaragua in time for a spectacular holiday attack. In Honduras, however, the word is that the contras' fireworks will not begin until the end of January. Whenever the contras finally do resume their war, the pyrotechnics will have to be bright, indeed, if the rebels hope to coax more funds from a reluctant U.S. Congress...
There are many software add-ons that can improve the power of your word-processor and help clean up your prose. Spelling checkers, programs that proofread your paper for typographical errors, can be very useful, and although the Happy Hacker has no specific recommendations as yet (he's currently reviewing several for an upcoming column), most dictionary programs are better than sitting down with a dictionary...
...between getting lousy grades in class and writing this column, the Happy Hacker remains glued to his word-processor trying to figure out how to get a word-processor to write his papers for him, or short of that, how it can at least explain to the professor the reason for turning in an assigned paper after the deadline. When he figures it out, you can hear it here first...