Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...avoid such impediments in the future, a task force representing disabled users, researchers and half a dozen computer companies has been meeting under the auspices of the Federal Government. One tangible result: the tiny bumps on the touch-typing "home" keys, which are now standard equipment on all Apple keyboards. "You still have to learn how to type," says Karl Dahlke, a blind software engineer at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Naperville, Ill. In that regard, however, the able and the disabled are on equal footing -- which is just how the handicapped like things...
...even with Bennett gone, colleges and universities are not off the hook. While the next Republican administration will probably realize the futility of slashing federal funding for student aid and avoid polarizing the education community the way Bennett did, pressure to keep tuitions down will remain...
...companies by placing their management in the hands of a third party, but appears to answer none of the ethical questions which have surrounded university-industry ties since the biotechnology boom started more than a decade ago. University officials seem to hope that this new arrangement may avoid those problems by carefully separating the commercial side of the operation, which will be left to a Harvard-owned company, from the academic side...
...senior lecturer for both English and Expository Writing addressed freshmen in a new effort to avoid plagiarism, a practice that sends roughly one dozen students, many of them Yardlings, to the Administrative Board each year...
Walsh said he wanted to determine if the rents Harvard charges graduate and undergraduate students to live in the affiliated housing are at market rates or if Harvard is keeping them excessively low to avoid paying the city as much each year...