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Unmanned space travel costs far less than manned missions and can probe much deeper in space with no risk to humans. Yet it remains the poor stepchild to the high-flying manned space program, experts said...
...necessary at this time. But once having allowed the cross-town arrangement to begin in 1976, Harvard should have recognized it simply for what it was and given its cadets and midshipmen recognition for their activity. The new agreement simply takes away some of Harvard's "unwanted stepchild" attitude toward its ROTC students. It was the decent thing...
Sociology was an academic stepchild and psychology a minor pseudoscientific discipline not much discussed in those days. It was history that held a paramount place in the curriculum. Those of us who took Sydney Fay's course in modern European history emerged imbued with the idea that the Germans were not solely responsible for the first World War, a revolutionary thought that we digested with a certain amount of skepticism. Our bible was the Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, which we read with a sense of the author's courage and valor that we all longed to emulate...
...Deere and AT&T plants represent the new pizazz in American manufacturing. Long U.S. industry's neglected stepchild, subordinated to finance and marketing, the process of making products is suddenly coming into its own, commanding more and more attention from company executives. Firms are pouring money into new manufacturing facilities and stocking them with such advanced equipment as computer-driven robots, lasers and ultrasonic probes. Last week the Commerce Department reported that U.S. business plans to spend $344 billion on new plant and equipment this year, up 12% from 1983. That is the biggest annual increase in 17 years...
...Orleans show marked a coming of age for software, once the neglected stepchild of the computer business. In four years, personal-computer software sales have grown from $ 175 million to $2.1 billion. Exhibitors last week ranged from two-person companies with products packed in Ziploc bags to such corporate giants as IBM and A T & T. Houghton Mifflin, the book publisher, introduced several new computer programs, including one that checks spelling. Said President Richard Young: "We assume the software business will grow at twice the rate of our other business...