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Universities like Brown and Dartmouth, far ahead of Harvard in the number of students and faculty members who use computers, have a "top-down" theory of computerization. Department head outline a program by which faculty and students are expected to apply the new technology to traditional areas of scholarship, said Lewis...
Universities like Brown and Dartmouth, far ahead of Harvard in the number of students and faculty members who use computers, have a "top-down" theory of computerization. Department head outline a program by which faculty and students are expected to apply the new technology to traditional areas of scholarship, said Lewis...
...defense policy speech. Thus the President unveiled Star Wars in a televised address on March 23. Reagan's science adviser, George Keyworth II, excluded from the loop until five days before the speech, now talks with relish about the bureaucracy's "surprise, if not shock, at this demonstration of top-down leadership...
...explorations of Los Angeles, a top-down kind of town, must begin with the same action: cranking an automobile. "How can one pursue happiness by any swifter or surer means," the Los Angeles Times asked in 1926, "than by the use of the automobile?" This year the paper advised in an Olympics guidebook that "the car's the thing, and if you have one or have rented one, be sure to become familiar with Los Angeles streets and freeways. (This is the key to 'happy' motoring in and around the large basin...
Jesuit Father William Sullivan, president of Seattle University, sees the archdiocese as a paradigm of a nationwide tension between liberals and conservatives. On one side are people like Hunthausen, "a man of Vatican II" who favors the "democratic mentality." On the other stands "the older notion of top-down authority" reinforced by the Pope...