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boilerplate

Text that is used over and over with very little or no change. For example, boilerplate is essential in the legal profession as pre-written paragraphs are often combined to create agreements. It is also essential for canned responses in tech support and is a feature of many email programs. Also called "stationery" and "templates," email boilerplate enables a message with the same subject and body text to reply to different recipients. Unfortunately, the boilerplate feature is not always available, especially in Web-based email, requiring several extra steps to accomplish the task. See boilerplate code and email signature.


AUTO-TYPIST (1940s to 1970s)
Like a player piano, it read canned text as hole patterns on pre-punched rolls. As the roll unwound, the holes directed negative pressure through hoses connected to a tiny bellows on each key, snapping it down. (Image courtesy of TMC/Compco, Inc.)







Create the Boilerplate
Typing on this AUTO-TYPIST perforator recorded the text by punching holes in the rolls. (Image courtesy of TMC/Compco, Inc.)







"The Ultimate in Automatic Typing"
From the 1940s up until the mid-1970s, AUTO-TYPIST machines from the American Automatic Typewriter Company provided reliable document processing. (Image courtesy of TMC/Compco, Inc.)
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Unlike the boilerplate remedy clauses, which are often short and plain (even if stingy)--limiting remedies to repair-or-replace or restitution of the price paid--the legally supplied damages that attach to the village contracts are quite complex given that the liability for consequential damage is notoriously hard to draw.
The content library central storage for reusable boilerplate content to maintain consistency and accuracy.
In the first two chapters,Tina Stark provides an introduction and then shows how to avoid stylistic and grammatical mistakes that occur frequently when drafting declarations and covenants, which are the typical type of so-called "boilerplate" provisions.
I know it's sappy, boilerplate, impossibly soapy, and woefully lacking in girl action, and I know that for all those reasons and more, liking it makes me a bad lesbian, but I can't help it.
Contract "boilerplate" takes on greater significance in the international context since foreign parties will aggressively endeavor to reduce the "standard" contract provisions in their desire to shorten the agreements.
It makes no sense to begin an e-mail with boilerplate or unsubscribe information.
We contractors sometimes rationalize to ourselves that speedily produced deliverable plans and procedures--that have been made up from old documents, that is boilerplate, untailored to the present needs--might be an acceptable business practice.
Disclosures under SOP 94-6 -- "Disclosure of Certain Significant Risks and Uncertainties" -- have often resulted in boilerplate language to the effect that these financial statements contain estimates.
Corporations can hide significant liabilities through the use of boilerplate language that suggests that costs and claims will not have a materially adverse affect on a company's bottom line.
Sections of the guide are: Your First Steps toward Publishing; Who Should Use This Guide; How This Guide Will Help You; Why You Must Publish through Government Channels; Getting Your Manuscript Edited and Printed; Getting Your Manuscript Designed; Steps in a Typical Printing Job at ED; Parts of a Publication; Sample Verso (Boilerplate) Page; Verso Page Explanation; The Writing Guides to Use; Limits on Content; Publishing Translations of ED Publications; Publishing Newsletters; Stationery and Business Cards; Giving and Publishing Official Speeches; How Your Publication Will Reach the Audience for Whom It Was Intended; and Forms Needed To Get Your Manuscript Edited and Printed.
In a daring theatrical coup, Act II begins with Eddie and Richie arriving down chutes into a minimalist boilerplate dome, relieved only by a large red knob labelled 'Do Not Push'.
He conceded that the line could be revamped for future use, which is one of Conrail's boilerplate claims.
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