Word: plainfield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saleem K. Boghdan North Plainfield...
William A. Henry III was sitting on the sidelines covering a schoolboy football game for his North Plainfield, N.J., high school newspaper when his journalism career began. A reporter from the Plainfield Courier-News showed up late and asked Henry what had happened. Impressed with Henry's colorful recounting of the game, the old pro soon thereafter helped the 16-year-old land a part-time job at the paper. Henry's career continued at Yale, where he was executive editor of both the Yale Daily News and the Yale Banner yearbook and co-author of three published...
Paul O. Powers North Plainfield...
...South Plainfield...
...says Joseph Engelberger, the ebullient president of Unimation. Top executives turn for advice to their technical managers, and these are naturally cautious. "Plant supervisors get worried because they don't understand robots," says Neale Clapp, a robotics expert for the management consultant firm of Block Petrella Associates in Plainfield, N.J. "They feel their authority is undermined." G.E., for one, commissioned a psychologist to study the effect of the introduction of robots on workers, and it found the greatest anxiety among foremen. Says James Clark, operations manager of the Westinghouse Elevator Co.: "The fear is: 'What do I know...