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Word: computerize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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In a breathtakingly brief time?just 25 years?HEW has assembled an empire that would be the envy of the pharaohs or the ancient Chinese emperors. Only this is a benevolent empire of round-the-clock services that go directly to 115 million Americans and indirectly touch just about everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Beneficent Monster | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

Computer mistakes--at least officially--wrought havoc with the ambitions of more than a few pre-professional types, as test scores for both the law and medical school admissions tests behaved erratically. Admissions officers at many schools decided to ignore the test results; the reactions of scores of seniors went...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bring back the abacus | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

Ma Bell struck again in March when a dyspeptic computer cut off more than 1000 phones in the Cambridge area for two days. Students first grew suspicious when a recorded voice kept instructing them to insert 45 cents into their living room phones before calling long-distance.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Operator, do I have to dial '1' to call upstairs? | 6/8/1978 | See Source »

The telephone company has been accused of being the stereotype of impersonal corporate power. But for the 1,800 folks of Avalon on Santa Catalina Island, 25 miles off the coast of Los Angeles, Pacific Telephone had always been downright neighborly. Almost everybody recognizes by voice the 19 operators who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Modernizing Ma Bell | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

Now that Orlov has been convicted and sentenced, Soviet authorities may soon begin the trials of two other well known members of the Helsinki monitoring committee: Computer Specialist Anatoli Shcharansky and Writer Alexander Ginzburg. Meanwhile the police have been harassing, arresting and trying less well known dissidents. A court in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Guilty As Charged | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

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