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...defected to Britain last June, stressed the difference between Andropov and other top Soviet leaders. Said Kuzichkin: "With the progress of time it will become clear that Andropov is his own man. Although he made his name as the KGB boss, he was not a professional policeman, having much wider interests. He owed his KGB job to Brezhnev, but he was never Brezhnev's creature...
...since the Depression had Americans used the mechanisms of initiative and referendum, those venerable tools of direct democracy, in greater numbers or with wider impact. From cracking down on crime to denying electroshock therapy in Berkeley, Calif., there were 237 statewide ballot measures in 42 states and the District of Columbia. California fielded the most, a bumper-sticker crop...
That statement, which the Faculty Council approved in June 1981 after rejecting a non-discrimination policy, needs wider circulation because gay students are still subject to harassment, and GLSA posters are still regularly defaced, Yedinsky said...
...brain and a machine. Those who go mountaineering up the interface, however, are developing a wonderfully recondite vocabulary. Hackers (computer fanatics) at M.I.T. and Stanford maintain a Hacker's Dictionary to keep their common working language accessible to one another. Input and output have long since entered the wider language. So have software and hardware. The human brain in some circles is now referred to as wetware. When a computer goes down, of course, it crashes. Menu, meaning a computer's directory of functions, is turning up now as noun and verb, as in "Let me menu...
...must break to gain access to the product. Predicts Ben Miyares, executive editor of Food and Drug Packaging magazine: "Packages designed to show evidence of tampering will be the wave of the future." The management-consulting firm of Arthur D. Little, which has been studying the problem, advocates the wider application of several safety methods now used on some grocery products. They include the tight plastic bands or shrink wraps that cover the cap and neck of some syrup and sauce bottles, vacuum seals like those on instant-coffee jars, and baby-food "pop tops" that bulge visibly once opened...