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...keep abreast of the new wave, 215 scientists met at Stanford University last month to consider the current and future capability of microwave technology and its applications...
...years has concerned the condition of the city itself. As billions of dollars are spent on the revitalization of dying downtowns, as crumbling old neighborhoods are bulldozed away, as the past gives way to the present, a hybrid journalist is developing-the urban reporter-critic. Reporting, he keeps citizens abreast of what's going up and coming down, what city planners envision for the future. Criticizing, he serves as a civic conscience-denouncing the banal, calling for conservation of the historic or unique, pointing out that planners who think big sometimes err even bigger...
...other organizations. They are inevitably among the hardest working, most vociferous members of non-Communist organizations, and often win respect simply by dint of compulsive industry. They also serve a major communicative function: by meeting together with other Boston Communists and reading reports to each other, they can keep abreast of the events in each area of the radical movement. Then when they report back to the non-Communist organization with which they are affiliated, they can serve a coordinating function...
Riding six abreast on the jets replacing Eastern's piston planes, Air-Shuttle passengers get to buy a ticket and read their own newspaper. American's Jet Express, by contrast, offers two-class service, continental breakfast, $1 drinks after 11:30 a.m. and coffee any time - while matching the Shuttle with a $16 tourist fare and 16 daily flights...
...exercises. If the student answers rag instead of ran, he evidently does not understand the basic concept being taught, so the computer goes back over previous drills. On the other hand, if he touches ban, he gets remedial exercises in initial sounds. Unlike a human teacher, the computer keeps abreast of the student, holds his attention, never gives up, pushes him to perform at his best. At any moment, the computer is giving its whole attention to only one student, but it works instantaneously on a "shared-time" basis and easily covers all 16 students at once...