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On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Combs, Richard
<richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com> wrote:
> Steve Schwarzman wrote:
>
>> I once had a client, a large organization, that used "depress" as a
>> standard.
>
> I cringe when I see "press the XYZ button" -- it's on the screen, not on the keyboard, for Pete's sake.
>
> If I were expected to write "depress the XYZ button," I might run screaming from the room.
>
> Or tell the XYZ button all about the sovereign debt crisis. ;-)
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