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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Printing papers that are created on your home word processor is fairly simple, provided you plan in advance. Translated, that means finding an appropriate systems disk for a Macintosh or a suitable word processing package on your IBM PC (or compatible...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Stairway to Term Paper Heaven | 11/5/1986 | See Source »

...that makes for underground, intellectual, guerrilla warfare. It puts thinkers and artists in the position of continually devising a strategy to push the limits of what can be said. But for the other kind of censor--the limit of acceptability inside someone's mind--that "strategy" is just another word for innovation...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: Sincere Censorship | 11/5/1986 | See Source »

...laserwriter fonts (even though drafts printed on your imagewriter will look a little funny). However, it's also possible to write a term paper with regular fonts laser-compatible. Simply use one of OIT's Mac system disks (which have the correct fonts), and then load in your Word or Mac Write file. Once in a Mac word processor, it's possible to define a block of text and change the font from the old image-writer font--such as Geneva or New York--into a laser font--such as Times Roman or Helvetica...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Stairway to Term Paper Heaven | 11/5/1986 | See Source »

Printing from an IBM compatible file requires some advance preparation. Before going to OIT, a formatted version of the text to be printed must be created. Several of the leading word processors offer this as an option, usually called 'Create a Print File'. Preferable to a regular formatted file is a Postcript file which can be made with Microsoft Word or another Postcript compatible word processor...

Author: By Evan O. Grossman, | Title: Stairway to Term Paper Heaven | 11/5/1986 | See Source »

...California-based distributor of telephone systems, which subsequently filed a $50 million trademark-infringement lawsuit against the steel company. After Houston Natural Gas merged with InterNorth in July 1985, Lippincott & Margulies, a New York City-based firm, came up with the name Enteron. As it happened, enteron is another word for the human digestive system. Randal Blauvelt, a spokesman for the new company, recalls that the coincidence was especially unfortunate for a manufacturer of natural gas. Says he: "It was nonstop joking. But we lived through it." And decided to shorten the name to Enron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pros Who Play the Name Game | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

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