Word: fields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Another basic problem, compounded by the fact that he started in April, far too late, was that Anderson necessarily had to run as an independent because he had no time to organize a third party, which would have given him a supporting framework. Says California Pollster Mervin Field: "Anderson was suddenly thrust into the arena and asked to play major league ball without a team and without preseason conditioning." Altering the metaphor, Campaign Director David Garth says, "It was like they gave us a moped and told us to race against two Maseratis. But I still think it wasn...
...might allow a company executive to dictate a memo into a smart dictating machine that will then distribute it, electronically, to offices around the world. Copiers linked to teleprinters would print and duplicate the memo, route it internally as well as "file" it in the electronic memory banks of field office computers...
...companies designing and producing the high-technology components of the business office of the future are prospering lavishly. Sales are already approaching $30 billion annually and are expected to leap to nearly $100 billion a year by 1990. In addition to such giants as IBM, Xerox and Honeywell, the field is filling up with a host of newcomers. flush with billions in oil profits, Exxon Corp. has entered the market with its new unit, Exxon Office Systems Co., which is manufacturing and selling a range of desktop word processing devices. The company's QWIP transceiver sends and receives over...
When South African Surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant in 1967, medicine instantly had a new glamour field. In two years, more than 60 teams around the world replaced failing hearts in about 150 people. Barely 20% of the patients survived after twelve months. By the mid-'70s the operation was abandoned by nearly all its early advocates...
...more serious blow to transplants has come from the Department of Health and Human Services, which has withdrawn Medicare coverage of such operations pending a two-year study of the procedure's medical, ethical, social and economic impact. If Medicare quits the field for good, private health plans are almost sure to follow...