Word: berkeley
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...adherence to traditional American political values is not so much wrong as incomplete. Certainly, adherence to some "American creed," especially in the early years, is a current that runs through much of the writing from the New Left. Mario Savio, the leader of the Free Speech Movement on the Berkeley campus in the early 60s, wrote for example that "the things we are asking for in our civil rights process have a deceptively quaint ring. We are asking for the due process of law ... We are asking that regulation ought to be considered as arrived at legitimately only from...
...bishop came on the line to act as translator. In 1972, Jobs entered Oregon's Reed College, but he left two years later to ease his family's financial hardships. He then took a job designing video games at Atari. Wozniak, meanwhile, had dropped out of Berkeley to become a designer at Hewlett-Packard. After hours, Wozniak worked hard building a small, easy-to-use computer. In 1976 he succeeded. The pint-size machine was smaller than a portable typewriter, but it could do the feats of much larger computers...
...addition to developing new products, Apple will have to prove that it has the management talents needed in a firm that this year will join the ranks of the Fortune 500. Though Wozniak remains a major shareholder, he has dropped out of company affairs and returned to Berkeley to finish his studies. Markkula plans to retire within two years to spend more time with his family. Jobs, who had the vision to build one of America's foremost companies from a hobbyist's toy, must show that he has the foresight and ability to guide a major corporation...
...State was fertile ground for organizing. Unlike the prestigious University of California system, an academic powerhouse of nine branches, including Berkeley and U.C.L.A., Cal State evolved as a collection of teacher colleges in such cities as San Jose, Chico and Fresno. Partly because it emphasizes teaching instead of research, Cal State has been treated as a second-class organization. Money and a slight inferiority complex have not been its only problems. At a time when job security is poor and tenure is an impossible dream to many young academics all over the country...
...conference, either as administrators of delegates. Harvard's Model United Nations, held annually, is the second largest in the nations hopped only by the National Model United Nations which takes place in New York City each April which draws 1300-1400 participants. Delegations from as far away as Berkeley, California and East Texas are standing the Harvard conference...