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Though sweeping, the actual transformations wrought by computers and mass communications have been more subtle than predicted. Between 1860 and 1980, the proportion of the U.S. economy derived from information processing and communications rose from 7% to more than 50%, creating a demand for a new type of worker. Computers and communications equipment do not require strength or aggressiveness, and this has helped transform the role of women in industrial societies. These changes go on today at the edges of the information age. In New Guinea, for example, rural men skilled in warfare and hunting are by turns mystified...
...five months after assuming the mantle of power, members of the new majority are a little more guarded about the shape of the city's future. While CCA-backers say they have made definite progress, they caution that the type of change they are bringing about is not always apparent at weekly council meetings...
...while some CCA-backed councillors acknowledge that their first five months have not seen the type of drama that was the hallmark of their predecessors, they say that their accomplishments have more substance and less flash...
...commitment of the University to this type of investment is definitely firm. Treasurer D. Ronald Daniel says that although the University would not want to put more than one-fifth of the endowment into such holdings, it definitely will not diminish its involvement...
Beyond that, she is uncertain of what type oflaw she will want to practice--though she knowsshe does not want to work in a large corporatefirm...