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Under the old system, professors had to assign Low Passes or Unsatisfactories to 10 to 15 percent and Excellents to 15 to 20 percent of the students in each of 18 class sections into which B-School students are randomly placed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B-School Changes Grading | 2/10/1987 | See Source »

...wary independence of some of its members. While MCC companies all want to share in the fruits of the consortium's research, they do not want to give competitors an edge. Says Drew Peck, who follows electronics companies for the Gartner Group: "Member firms are reluctant to assign their first-tier researchers to MCC. To them, sharing their research talent and resources with competitors is considered an unnatural act." But that is exactly what U.S. companies may have to do to best their Japanese rivals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uneasy Alliance: Defections hit a computer team | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

...lieutenant governor presides over the Governor's Council, is a voting member of the Executive Council, and serves in place of the governor when he is out of state or in case of disability or death. The governor may assign additional duties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lieutenant Governor | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...need to type in what class computer you want. If you have not set up a low-priority account, turn off your computer, go down to the Science Center basement and ask on of the terminal watchers to create a Class 4 low-pri account for you. They will assign you a logname and password. That accomplished, you're ready to telecompute away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Networking Your Way to the Science Center | 10/15/1986 | See Source »

...week outing. While the Army cannot grow beyond the 781,000 officers and men authorized by Congress, the National Guard now has 440,000 and the Reserve 242,000. Those two forces may soon surpass the manpower of the regular Army. The numbers have virtually forced the Army to assign National Guard units to combat roles. Fully 44% of the Army's combat units come from the Guard, which by one estimate is now the seventh largest army in the free world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Warriors No More | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

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