Word: shorthanded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Formulae are entered in standard mathematical notation, rather than calculator shorthand. Results are rendered in clean 3-D perspective at the blink of an eye and are updated dynamically. (An aside for those who like to tinker: the multi-colored Apple logo from the Puzzle desk accessory may be copied and pasted into Calculator, where it will properly map onto the surface of whatever function is being graphed--pretty cool...
...senior aides rode from their hotel to the Kremlin for their first round of talks, they wondered whether they would find Yeltsin firmly on course for more economic reforms or possibly planning to trim under pressure from the extreme nationalists and communists in the newly elected parliament. In political shorthand, the apprehension had a name: Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the most visible and loudest of Moscow's band of neofascists. But Clinton was more broadly concerned last week with resentment among the Russian people and with whether Yeltsin would have to respond by firing some of the best-known reformers from...
...values brought from their homelands. But business as usual in the old country can be a felony in the U.S.; conventional child-rearing practices there, for example, might be considered child abuse here. One result of the rising immigrant tide is the increasing use of "the cultural defense" -- legal shorthand for courtroom attempts to explain the actions of foreign-born defendants by invoking the mores and taboos of their native countries. Defense attorneys use the tactic in two major ways: to persuade prosecutors to reduce charges and to encourage judges to exercise leniency at sentencing...
...full history of art doesn't inscribe itself in movements, in the U.S. or anywhere else. Yet this show is movement-fixated; it proposes a kind of historical shorthand, a rhetoric of innovations and "decisive breakthroughs." The curators go on at length about wanting to show those moments when the ball was first put in the cannon. Rosenthal even claims that a new American art experienced "parthenogenesis" -- virgin birth, without a father -- with Pollock's 1943 paintings...
Unlike many previous Presidents and Vice Presidents who campaigned separately, Clinton and Gore bonded on the tour bus, creating a chemistry that seems to endure. Says Democratic political consultant Bob Squier: "They got to know each other so well that they came to talk in a shorthand only they could understand. You had to listen very closely to follow." Clinton even integrated his staff with Gore's to prevent White House infighting. Says Roy Neel, who served Gore before becoming a deputy chief of staff to Clinton: "The tension between the presidential and vice-presidential protectors, which has destroyed many...