Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...probably only one of many people who are tired of hearing about Yuppies, but I can't seem o get away from them. When I write a story about renovation of old triple-deckers in a neighborhood near Copley Place the developers and the Yuppies are the gentrifiers, displacing the neighborhood's low-income established residents. When the City of Boston tries to push a rent control and condominium conversion control package through the city council, the real estate industry and the Yuppie condo owners stop it. Then Newsweek makes it all official by devoting an issue to the Year...
Adam has made life tough for Coleco. The company will take an estimated $110 million write-off against 1984 earnings because of the flop. Indeed, Adam might have driven Coleco to its knees were it not for the company's success with another product: the Cabbage Patch Kids. Coleco last year sold $500 million worth of Cabbage Patcheria, and the pudgy dolls have been the hottest toys for the past two Christmas seasons. Coleco hopes that it will now do better by staying in the cabbage patch...
...person who didn't care about what this stuff was about would write a report and let it go at that," says Simon, who worked with Bok in the Army. "That's what most people in the Pentagon did. But he persevered with a moral passion and changed a lot of bad rules...
...This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what he said it in, or in fact if he ever said anything. But by never bothering to define empiricism, he may write indefinitely on the issue, virtually without contradiction...
...actually does, the vague generality is the key device. A generality is a vague statement that means nothing by itself, but when placed in an essay on a specific subject might very well mean something to grader. The true master of a generality is the man who can write a ten page essay, which means nothing at all to him, and have it mean a great deal to anyone who reads it. The generality writer banks on the knowledge possesed by the grader, hoping the marker will read things into his essay...