Word: technician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lawyers. But when they talk to a technical-support person, they expect it to be free." There are signs, however, that this attitude may be changing. Robert Refvem, for one, happily plunked down $65 for six months of MicroPro's premium service. "I call them up, I get a technician, I'm off and running," says the Burlingame, Calif., real estate agent. Besides, he adds, "it's the only way they'll answer the phone...
...Oldtimers at NASA yearn for a return to the days when Air Force Lieut. General James Abrahamson, now Reagan's director of the Strategic Defense Initiative, ran the shuttle program. When he sensed a problem, he awaited no "criticality" rating; he barged into the office of even the lowliest technician to ask how to fix it. Perhaps unfairly, one commissioner insists that "Abe was replaced by wimps...
...affliction and have come to Landmark from all over the country. Founded in September, it is the first postsecondary school in America devoted exclusively to teaching dyslectics. Typical is Andy Thompson, 26, who quit Franklin University in Columbus after fumbling through his classes, then got fired as an electronics technician because, as his wife Jane explains, "they said he was too slow and inattentive." Trey Smith, another Landmark enlistee, had similar symptoms and his own deep frustrations. A superb pulling guard at his Dallas high school, Smith saw a raft of football scholarships sink because of his hopeless transcript. Smith...
...when he first met his future wife Nancy. Both were high school students in Parsippany, N.J. "She was a very independent, headstrong, loving person," he recalls. They married a few years after graduation, when John was working as a machinist and Nancy as a lab technician. Then six years ago, while she was pregnant with their first child, Nancy was injured in a traffic accident; several bones were broken, and the baby was lost. "She was a real tiger and a real fighter," John recalls, but her struggle to recover ended abruptly during surgery to remove the fetus. Oxygen...
...Data were fed into ENIAC in the form of IBM punch cards; a million cards were required for the monster's first assignment, a top-secret numerical simulation for the still untested hydrogen bomb. Every time a tube burned out, which happened twice a day at the start, a technician had to rummage among the tangle of wires to locate and replace the dead component. To prevent rodents from nibbling at ENIAC and destroying vital parts, Eckert recalled at the anniversary party, the scientists captured some mice, starved them for several days and then fed them bits of the insulating...