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...subsequently died, from a cocaine overdose. Shortly thereafter, Capital Cities, which later acquired ABC, discovered organized drug dealing in one of its divisions. Last year, according to Dr. Robert Wick, corporate medical director for American Airlines, a computer operator who was high on marijuana failed to load a crucial tape into a major airline's computer reservations system. Result: the system was out of service for some eight hours, costing the company about $19 million. Says Wick: "That was an awfully expensive joint by anybody's standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling the Enemy Within | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...conversion of 73 year-old Sheldon Hall--which was recently recognized by the National Register of Historical Places as a significant building--had been postponed during the fall of 1984 due to a controversial bidding procedure as well as "just a lot of unnecessary red tape," President Virginia Radley told The Oswegonian, the campus newspaper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Class Cuts | 3/15/1986 | See Source »

...from only a single synthesizer and two male backup singers. Her barrage of instruments included a particularly bizarre vocoder (a synthesizer that alters the sound of human voice), an amplified microphone stand on which she tapped out the beat for "Closed Circuit," and her own technological innovation, the magnetic tape-bow violin...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: Quite a Performance | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

...report outlines a number of steps to cut through red tape and simplify and centralize decision making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defensive About Defense | 3/10/1986 | See Source »

Boehrer and his associates tape sectionleaders--mostly graduate students--in their natural classroom habitats or a video lab and then review the performances and give pointers...

Author: By Mark M. Robbins, | Title: Making Videos for Education | 3/7/1986 | See Source »

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