Word: weber
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...department had already hired about two-thirds of the required census coordinators through the civil service. Thus these nonpartisan supervisors will be able to select most of the 400,000 door- to-door enumerators at up to $8 an hour. Republicans are livid. Complained Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber: "Patronage is the lifeblood of politics in many congressional districts. To have this slip by us for bureaucratic reasons is just infuriating...
...They made the mistake of thinking this was a one-round fight," said Rep. Vin Weber (R-Minn...
Harvard was one of 14 universities which shared use of the multi-million dollar Princeton facility in a consortium arrangement, Weber said yesterday. The supercomputers, highly valued in advanced scientific research, make billions of calculations per second and are used in subatomic physics and semiconductor research, among other applications...
Between 20 and 25 of Harvard's supercomputer users worked with the Princeton facilities because of its proximity, Vanderbilt said. But Weber said that while scientists have "an insatiable appetite for supercomputer time," the four remaining supercomputers nationwide will be upgraded to capacities more than double the current level...
...Weber said the NSF withdrew its support, about $10 million annually, when the parent company of the von Neumann computer manufacturer disbanded the subsidiary. Control Data Corporation decided to "pull the plug" on ETA System, maker of the supercomputer, the NSF director said. He did not elaborate...