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...story began in October 1962 when the students discovered by accident a code number which, when dialed, enabled them to bypass the familiar operator who asks long distance callers the number which should be billed for the call...
...City-whose $4.6 billion budget is larger than any state's-to go hat in hand to Albany to beg for the new taxes that he believes the city needs. No wonder that, after years of neglect by rural-dominated state legislatures, city after city has learned to bypass the state capital and go directly to Washington for help...
...which could fly from its extra-thick runways. Sattahip's fuel pipeline system will eventually extend to Korat, where the U.S. Army's 9th Logistical Command has already stockpiled enough guns, tanks, trucks and ammunition for a full division. U.S. and Thai engineers are constructing the Bangkok Bypass, a strategic highway to carry vital traffic northward past the capital. It will have the side effect, as did the $20 million Friendship Highway completed two years ago, of opening up vast interior regions of the nation to the capital's culture and economy...
Lungi & Computer. The younger Indians are underpinning their companies with Western techniques as well as partners. Indian family companies always believed in nepotism, found jobs for every relative around. Today's executives bypass their in-laws for professional managers. Keshub Mahindra is proud of the fact that only five of 12,000 employees are related to him; Mahindra has linked his plants with Telex communications, keeps track of production with PERT (for performance evaluation and review technique), which was originally devised in the U.S. to coordinate production of the Polaris weapons system. Charat Ram took the lead in founding...
...municipal buildings. This "Public Facilities Commission" would be appointed by, and solely responsible to, the mayor. It would conduct long range planning, handle all finances, choose architects, and select building sites. It would have a budget immune to amendment by the City Council, and it would be able to bypass city regulatory agencies and float its own bond issues without regard to the city's statutory debt limit...