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...even bigger advantage, he adds, is speed. Take the arduous night three weeks ago when TIME produced its special election issue, which went to press just ten hours after the last polls closed. Without computer page makeup, the time-consuming chores of cut and paste would "have prevented the inclusion of late-breaking additions to stories. "With this system," says Feeback, "a new part of a story could be fitted into the layout five minutes after it was written and edited...
...true that Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan never entirely engaged during the race. But the long campaign did serve its purpose. In the arduous democratic process-entertainment and enlightenment and blood feud all mixed-the characters of the candidates unfolded. There was, God knows, plenty of time for the voters to make up their minds...
...rated as even the best of the six in town. Its news coverage had lost the crusading spirit of its early days as a "people's daily" fighting Brahmin interests. The editorial page featured wambling, civics-text platitudes. There were advertisements on Page One. Winship's arduous task was made more delicate by family diplomacy: his predecessor was his father, Laurence Winship, who had dominated the paper for 40 years...
Nonetheless, the historic new Sino-British agreement is virtually certain to be passed by Parliament in early December, and Thatcher will fly to Peking to complete the formalities, probably at year's end. It will then remain only for the Chinese to begin the arduous task of drafting and ratifying a new Basic Law to incorporate the joint declaration. Although in theory the residents of Hong Kong may challenge the terms of the treaty, in practice they can do nothing to change them. Instead, a people famous for their speculations and their love of gambling can only rely...
...addition to the arduous task of typing in information on each of the 11 million volumes, computers would cost money every time they are used--while the DUC stations' only ongoing expense is for the light with which to read the fiches and for replacing damaged materials. Feng also says. "We have been very happily surprised about how good people would be with the fiche," and that the system has held up far better under intensive use than anyone had expected. Other areas where computers might be called is to help include the reserve books system, which is "growing...