Word: bulletin
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Computer networks like CompuServe and the Source, which give subscribers access to software by telephone, maintain large collections of public -domain pro grams. In addition, hundreds of individual computer enthusiasts and clubs have made free programs available on electronic bulletin boards that are reachable by telephone. Several books now tell computer owners where to find the freebies. The Computer Phone Book, by Mike Cane (New American Library; $9.95), lists the phone numbers of more than 400 bulletin boards and networks carrying programs for many brands of personal computers, including Apple, IBM, Tandy, Commodore and Atari. Free Software...
...chairman at Citicorp is like a coronation or a papal election. For years, speculation has mounted about the heir to Walter Wriston, 64, who retires in August as head of the largest (assets: $142 billion) private banking institution in the world. After a Citicorp board meeting last week, a bulletin was flashed to the company's 2,789 offices around the globe, and the suspense was over. The new chief: John S. Reed, 45, the brash and brainy young executive who led Citicorp's charge into nationwide consumer banking...
...some 90 million Americans. Access to its files is gained with a computer password, actually a number code. Last week TRW officials confirmed that an account password had been filched from one of its creditor subscribers, a West Coast Sears store. It was then posted on so-called electronic bulletin boards, which almost any computer enthusiast can hook into through phone lines...
...staff of 612 reporters and editors in London and at 92 bureaus assembles a daily menu of about 60,000 words in English, plus services in French, German, Spanish and Arabic. Next year Reuters will launch a photo service. Among the agency's recent exclusives: the first bulletin of the death of Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov, and a report, on which Reuters had a 45-minute lead over all competitors, of the bombing attacks that killed almost 300 U.S. and French troops in Beirut last October. Yet Reuters does not hurry stories onto the wire before they are confirmed...
...have long been a proponent of House courses. It has been, by far, the most enjoyable teaching I have done at Harvard, with the possible exception of teaching a small group of undergraduates Shakespeare. Joyce, Yeats and Robert Lowell. In a 1973 article in the Harvard Law School Bulletin I described the joys of dealing with students on an intimate basis in may year-long Dunster House course on constitutional...