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Official Harvard, you see, operates on a system of lists. People who are on the right list breeze through the the University with no problems at all. People who are on the wrong list--or even worse, left off the list entirely--enter a tangle of red tape that would do even the Pentagon proud...
Callers dialing the United Airlines pilots' hotline last week were confused. As the holiday tune Greensleeves played creakily in the background, the recorded message reassured listeners that the company's proposed employee buyout was still on track. But then again, was this some old tape left over from last Christmas...
...M.P.A.A. signed a truce with Go-Video in 1988 after the company agreed to equip its VCRs with an electronic device that can detect a special signal on a movie tape and prevent the consumer from making a copy. Last year Go- Video settled with 21 other defendants in the suit, accepting $2 million. One of the companies, Samsung, agreed to manufacture the VCR-2 at its factory in South Korea. In exchange, Samsung will license Go-Video's technology to sell dual-deck VCRs under its own label around the world. Building on its earlier case, Go-Video filed...
...this year. Dunlap believes that at least 750,000 buyers will choose his machine in the next year or two. Camcorder buffs, he points out, can use the VCR-2 to edit their home movies. Among other applications: recording two programs at the same time, copying favorite tapes and recording a program while watching a tape...
...left the West to go to Syracuse University, although she had never heard of it before a recruiter showed up at Cheyenne Mountain. Just curious, as usual. She did a double major in education and business. Teaching, she decided, was not for her: "The kids were great; the red tape was horrible." But college increasingly became an assignment to complete. The world of part-time jobs was more real than the lecture hall, and inevitably, New York City beckoned...