Word: program
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unemployment rate." That could not happen if productivity were really as low as the official figures indicate, he says; the numbers--er, do not compute. So productivity must be increasing faster than calculated, and one likely reason is computerization. Maybe the experts need somebody who can design a computer program to measure that elusive productivity increase once...
...increasing productivity. It is intended to expand or protect market share. Computers can be misused too, especially by businessmen who buy them to keep up with the corporate Joneses. "We have clients who buy the most expensive laptops and systems and then just run an ordinary word-processing program," says Alex Reppen, a New York computer consultant, who notes, "People try to automate things that really have no business being automated...
...deck of cards so that when they get bored they can play solitaire. Not going to happen, right? But if you give everyone on the sales force a $2,000 computer, you know they're going to play some solitaire because it's the second or third most common program...
What sounds like a confession at a meeting of Computer Addicts Anonymous--an organization that doesn't exist yet but could become the 12-step program of the new millennium--describes a disturbing dependency that may be affecting millions of computer users who succumb to the siren song of cyberspace, not just at home but during office hours. It is a compulsion so relatively new and scantily studied that doctors can't agree on what to call it--Internetomania, problematic use of the Internet, compulsive computer use and just plain computer addiction are a few monikers--let alone what causes...
...Gary Stiles, who runs Duke's Health Systems Network Development program, openly acknowledges that Duke's motives are more than just magnanimity. "We live in a very competitive market here. We either help people and catch them where we can, or we kiss them goodbye." So Duke goes out to Lumberton and Laurinburg, screens patients and transfers the sicker ones back to Duke, where they or their insurers will pay for them to get well. Duke also collaborates with community organizations in other cost-saving joint ventures, such as a child-abuse-prevention center, a teenage-pregnancy-prevention program...