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The term robot comes from the Czech word for forced labor and was invented by Karel Capek and popularized in his "fantastic melodrama" of 1921, R.U.R., which stood for Rossum's Universal Robots. These robots look and behave like people and work twice as hard, but since "God hasn...
Second, he added, Cabinet members are more likely than staff to reject impractical policies, and are more familiar with "what works and what doesn't."
Slive offered to sell the building for a dollar "to anyone who will move it away." When board members suggested that the building be used for museum offices. Slive said the plan was impractical because "our staff works in close proximity to the actual art objects."
Norman R. Smith, assistant dean and director of career and student services, said yesterday he will construct "a databank of Harvard contacts" for the school's 742 students, adding that recent expansion has made students' previous reliance on individual faculty contacts impractical.
CONSERVATION MAY make sense, but many people still consider it un-American--including the Republican Party. Americans are used to spending and consuming, not tightening their belts, and Congress has balked at any attempts to place a tax on gasoline in order to reduce consumption. Last spring Yergin proposed a...