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Word: actualizations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cost of eating at Harvard, however, comprises more than just the price of the food. Although $1.20 is the actual cost of food per meal served, the overall cost, with labor and other expenses, averages to $3.30 per meal served...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Non-Paying Guests Add to Board Rate | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...link that stretches from the designing room to the shop floor, and its simple aim is to boost sagging American industrial productivity. The key is the insertion of computer intelligence directly into every nook and cranny of industrial manufacturing, from product conceptualization to the myriad tasks of actual production. In so doing, the infant technology is already firing up a billion-dollar market of its own, as well as beginning to alter the very meaning of work for blue-and white-collar employees alike. Says Jeffrey Ehrlich, a CAD/CAM specialist for General Electric: "An avalanche of technology is heading toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now the Star Wars Factory | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...contrast, declines in actual earnings were reported by the nation's two largest banks, New York-based Citicorp (off 11.6%) and California's BankAmerica, which suffered a 33.3% drop in profits during the period. Fifth-ranked J.P. Morgan & Co. also slipped, with a decline of 26.7% from the year-earlier period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bankers' Touch | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

Williamson said yesterday that had original estimates on attendance at the library been closer to the actual figure of 400,000 a year, "there is a good chance we would not have had to move from Cambridge...

Author: By Julian A. Treger, | Title: Library Denies Attendance is Problem | 10/28/1981 | See Source »

...small BAC 167 Strikemaster jet fighter, for example, "is now in service with twelve air forces throughout the world" and "offers a uniquely cost-effective solution for counter-insurgency." Is the client's country a bit underdeveloped? No problem: Strikemaster "has proved its ability to operate ... under actual combat conditions from primitive airstrips." The insurgents themselves might be interested in some of the wares. For example, the Blowpipe is a 44-lb. antiaircraft missile system that can be fired by a lone attacker. On one page is a "cratering kit," designed to blow 25-ft.-wide holes in runways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Money Can Buy | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

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