Word: users
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...center in the Science Center basement--undoubtedly "the room" Eliot had in mind--"user assistants" were patiently dealing with Michelangelophobia. "People know something really heavy and bad is coming," said Peter J. Bohlin, a Northeastern senior. "They just don't know how to deal with it. One woman came in totally hysterical. She was convinced that all her disks were infected with Michelangelo." Dozens of frantic PC owners have come into have their disks checked for the virus...
...folded up like a wallet to the size of a pack of cigarettes. They can be smaller and less expensive than conventional cellular phones because they need to be powerful enough only to transmit to one of hundreds of receiving stations located throughout the local cable network. The user could thus bypass the local phone company, which makes the PCN system a threat to the Baby Bells' local monopoly. Last week Cox scored an industry first by becoming the first cable system to test-market a PCN service...
...cynic might see the silicone-implant business as another malfeasance on the scale of the Dalkon Shield (which had a tendency to cause devastating infections), DES (which could cause cancer in the user's offspring) or the high-estrogen birth-control pill (which was also rushed to market after hasty and dubious testing). A cynic might point to the medical profession's long habit of exploiting the female body for profit -- from the 19th century custom of removing the ovaries as a cure for "hysteria" to our more recent traditions of unnecessary hysterectomies and caesareans. A cynic might conclude that...
...admonish students who would have the audacity to ask about borrowing a program: "We do not have software to lend you!", "The software library is not a lending library!" and "There is nothing there for you!" These scare tactics are enough to frighten off the most enthusiastic would-be user...
...Dowds contends that despite the more modern, with-the-times merchandise Harvard Square now offers, in many respects the area is becoming less user-friendly. "You cannot get a decent meal at a reasonable price in Harvard Square," he says. "The student demand brings the food down to the lowest common denominator...