Word: looseleaf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...windowless room deep in a cinderblock office structure, 15 executives are learning how to use a personal computer. Prodded by two instructors, the pupils thumb through looseleaf training manuals, trying to find the exact combination of letters and numbers that will make the finicky machines do their bidding. There is a certain amount of head scratching and muttering. Complains one frustrated novice: "I run a $300 million division on a daily basis, and I can't find the A on the keyboard...
...There's no way in the world we can know if this kind of thing gets implemented," explains Alm, who was in the Carter administration in 1976. "The new president has hundreds of looseleaf notebooks on his desk telling him about how to get going; he cannot read them all," Alm says. "But if I were president, I seriously think I would read this one, because most advice comes from people who are themselves jockeying for position...
During a swim meet, Daniel positions himself in the stands directly above the finish line and begins his meticulous ritual. Before each race he listens attentively for the announcement of the competitors and neatly pencils their names into a makeshift scorecard in his looseleaf notebook...