Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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A Lot of Puff? The competition is hottest in presweetened cereals, which captured 31% of sales last year. Falling sugar prices are encouraging manufacturers to step up introductions of new brands: General Mills is bringing out Fruit Brutes, aiming to win kids away from Kellogg's Fruit Loops, and...
However, the alteration Rosovsky made is hardly a minor one. CHUL had suggested that Rosovsky continue to use the assignment system that had been in effect the last two years. Under that system, freshman roommate groups ranked all 12 Houses in order of preference. Assignments were then made randomly by...
The method Rosovsky used this year still asked roommate groups to rank the Houses, but the order in which those groups were assigned to a House was determined by a computer-run lottery. Each roommate groups received the House it ranked highest among those still available when its turn arose...
Rosovsky says he made this change to create an assignment system that is "more straightforward and easier for freshmen to understand." The method did encourage students to list the Houses in their actual order of preference (something administrators have been curious about for several years) rather than devise elaborate schemes...
There are times, in the ratified world of corporation politics, when resignation can be painful but also profitable. Last November Robert Sarnoff, chairman of the RCA Corp. and son of its redoubtable longtime chief Brigadier General David Sarnoff, quit his $326,000-a-year post after the corporation's...