Word: writes
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...attempt to prevent the proposal from becoming a rule, Dukakis will "write to his fellow governors to ask them for support," said Akey. Dukakis will also "work with the congressional delegation from Massachusetts to have the congress enact legislation to prohibit the rule change...
...Japan: Akio Morita and Sony (Dutton), a study of that enterprising industrialist. Boston Correspondent Lawrence Malkin's The National Debt (Henry Holt) grew out of his 25 years as an economics journalist. Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott expanded on his coverage of the past two superpower summits to co-write, with Michael Mandelbaum of the Council on Foreign Relations, Reagan and Gorbachev (Random House...
...Using a computer to write letters," says Ronald Coleman, a Mount Vernon, Ohio, maker of glass sculpture, "is like using a cannon to hunt rabbits." That may be so, but an awful lot of Americans are still taking that high- caliber approach to communication. An estimated 7.1 million personal computers were sold in the U.S. last year, almost every one capable of diverse tasks that range from preparing income-tax returns to managing the inventory of a small-to-medium-size business. Yet word-processing tasks, including the laborious business of writing and editing letters, lists and other manuscripts, account...
...father was a bit of a tyrant," Bette recalls. "He would flush the girls' makeup down the toilet. He'd lock my sister Susan out of the house when she came home too late. He taught my younger brother Daniel, who is brain damaged, to read and write by hammering and screaming at him until he got it. Every afternoon. None of us wanted to be in the house. But Daniel did learn, and it's made a big difference in his life. It gave him freedom. My father always thought I was a little odd. He never chose...
Slovo, a native of Lithuania whose parents emigrated to South Africa in 1935, exemplifies the connections that have grown up over the years between the ANC and the country's Communists. He joined the party before it was declared illegal in 1950 and helped write the Freedom Charter, the document that in 1955 became the ANC's political program. Slovo was accused of sabotage in 1963 in the same trial that resulted in lifetime prison sentences for Nelson Mandela and five other ANC leaders, but Slovo had managed to flee South Africa a month before the others were arrested...