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Word: computerizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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You probably ask where the money for such an undertaking would come from. But what do we need money for.? Marble pillars.? A boat-house? A spacious campus with a chapel? An electron accelerator? A computer for our political science mandarins? Secretaries to type endless manuscripts for non-teaching professors...

Author: By James A. Smith, | Title: Creating the Orthogonal University | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

Nonetheless, says Dr. Klaus Thomas, head of a West Berlin psychiatric clinic that has treated more than 12,000 would-be suicides, Berliners, and other Germans for that matter, have no particular "German suicide personality." In a computer-aided study of 10,000 patients who have passed through his Berlin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Berlin Syndrome | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

As the interview drew to a close, David Boorstin, director of Morning, Noon, and Night, dropped by, and the three of us headed for Elsie's where Horovitz challenged his two companions to a game or two of Computer Quiz (he beat us both, but chose the field of Entertainment...

Author: By Laurence Bergeen, | Title: Israel Horovitz: The Radical Play | 3/26/1970 | See Source »

They have a tough job on their hands. Some workers actively sabotage efficiency. A New Jersey-based oil company, for instance, once installed a $750,000 computer system to keep track of inventory and automatically reorder supplies. Within a few months the company was inundated by unneeded pipes, parts and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America the Inefficient | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

Wrong Numbers. What is bugging the telephone? The machine is not at fault. The average telephone goes out of order only once every 4½ years. At telephone exchanges, the traditional electrical-mechanical crossbar switching equipment, which routes calls through an open path in an intricate network of switches, is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Rising Toll of the Telephone Hang-Up | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

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