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Labor specialists and union leaders have a strong distaste for the home office of the future. They fear that computerized workshops will bring back the exploitation of turn-of-the-century sweatshops. Says Donald Elisburg, Assistant Labor Secretary for employment standards in the Carter Administration: "Put out of your mind...
The episode was reminiscent of the kidnaping of the grandson of Oil Tycoon John Paul Getty in Rome in 1973, when young Getty's ear was cut off and mailed to Il Messaggero. His family eventually paid a reported $2.8 million to his abductors. Last week's grisly...
A wholesale grocer and a newspaper prepared last week to operate the first commercial television service in the U. S. Edward G. McDougall of Libby McNeill & Libby, food firm, has long been a television enthusiast. Like other television amateurs he has been impatient because the country's 26 experimental...
Rich proved himself a prodigy at buying and selling grains and metals. One of his biggest market coups came during the Arab oil embargo of 1973-74, when he used his Middle Eastern contacts to circumvent the embargo and buy crude oil from Iran and Iraq. After purchasing the crude...
One reason is that unlike the milquetoast trash being turned out by British trendies, electronic funk is intensive, even more so than its less sophisticated predecessors. That's because rappers have used synthesized instruments to augment and vary the beat, rather than circumvent it.