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...well have heard just as much rhapsodizing about document-centric interfaces as that about hypertext and the World Wide Web. The first generation of software interfaces forced the user to think too much about the tools, the story went, and too little about the task. If you wanted to write a memo, you had to think, "First I must launch Microsoft Word, my tool, and then create a new document." If you wanted to embed some piece of information that Microsoft Word wasn't optimized for, you had to launch another application, create and modify a new element there...
...Citigroup all had large amounts of mortgage bonds or real estate investments that they had parked on or off their balance sheets - but were responsible for. They were chasing the same higher yields that all their investing clients were. Those investments comprised the greatest part of those firms' write-offs. Those weren't client-driven trades. They decided to take them themselves. The idea that proprietary trades were a trivial part of the losses at the banks is just not realistic. (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...
...fertile brain at an astounding rate. Beginning with The Godwulf Manuscript in 1974, Parker wrote prolifically; in recent years he published at least three books annually but penned more, an output that ensures avid readers will have new material to devour. Parker once said that while he tried to write slower, the books didn't get any better. He thought and spoke the way he wrote; his voice was Spenser's, and it was impossible not to be entertained by both of them...
...zones that are built into the Miami-Dade measure. "Child-safety zones [should] have been a critical component of what we did [before]," says Book. "We just didn't think of them." Book, who chairs Miami-Dade's Homeless Trust, which works to combat homelessness in the county, helped write the new state bill. Even so, because he was so involved in promoting the original residency restrictions, the offenders under the bridge still call their colony Bookville...
From now on Salinger would write only about the Glass family. "Zooey" was the story of how a Glass brother, the actor Zooey, tried to illuminate sister Franny about the pros and cons of the material world after she breaks up with her Ivy League boyfriend. In "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters," another Glass brother, Buddy, a writer who is one of Salinger's various stand-ins for himself, thinks back on the uproar of Seymour's wedding day. Then in 1959 came the epic-length "Seymour: An Introduction." In a story full of all kinds of narrative wanderings...