Word: processors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans have enjoyed the privilege of waking up to a fresh-brewed caffeine fix or of heating up last night's lasagna in 90 seconds. Once worshiped, the automatic drip coffeemaker and the microwave oven have become generic symbols of modern domestic life. The toaster, the blender, the food processor--they're all taken for granted. Things have been simple for a while...
With the growing importance of rapid communication, e-mail has, for many of us, become our primary word processor. And for most students on campus, pine is the application of choice...
Once you've gone through enrollment, which typically takes 45 minutes or so, you can run the program. All dictation is done from within the program's mini-word processor window...
...rate, it's unclear how effective industrial-era antitrust law can be in an age when any enterprising teen can, in theory, invent a new word processor on his laptop and kick Word's butt. The Web is the ultimate free market, whose invisible hand works with irresistible force, even on what seem to be immovable objects...
...reached by Chall and Adams--that programs with some systematic phonics instruction lead to better outcomes. Finally, brain-imaging studies are beginning to show how poor readers differ neurologically from good readers, and the indication so far is that the former have less activity in the brain's "phonological processor...