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...Until the early 1980s??before the introduction of personal computers—Harvard exclusively provided centralized computing to students and faculty. Richard P. Draves ’85, now a research area manager at Microsoft, remembers, “There were these rooms of terminals in the basement of the Science Center.” The central machine was a VAX 11/780. “It was not a very fast processor,” Draves recalls, “and [at any given time] it was being shared among about 50 students...
...then you wouldn’t find it here… in a town that only existed so you could make a few purchases on your way to somewhere else.” Fuerst’s description of setting and time—suburban New Jersey in the 1980s??is vivid, funny, and authentic. The author, who spent his teenage years in the Garden State, depicts the monotony and claustrophobia of humid August days with such proficiency that it is easy to understand Genie’s excitement over the case of the retirement home graffiti...
...Since World War II—even during the supposed libertarian love-fest and free-market free-for-all of the 1980s??states have invested in their people as well as forsaken integration and cooperation when prudent. Market intervention has always been part of the globalization process. But, too often, the market is viewed as a multilateral institution and the state as a pesky force of isolationism. Despite this false perception, we should continue to see global cooperation and so-called “nationalistic” government action in tandem for the foreseeable future. They?...
...which he said has proved more successful than government-controlled urban development. Huang, a former Harvard Business School faculty member who has also worked for the World Bank, said Western economists often overlook the establishment of 10 million privately owned rural township and village enterprises in China during the 1980s??which played a significant role in the country’s rapid growth in both GDP and personal income. But those trends were reversed in the 1990s as the government financed urban development at the expense of rural enterprises, Huang said. The changes occurred in cities like Shanghai...
...whole, “German Art of the 1980s?? displays a sly intelligence, making the little show of big loans a small, smart and highly recommended exhibition...