Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anatoly Shcharansky, a computer scientist, was imprisoned in March 1977 after repeated applications to emigrate to Israel.
Lisa A. Hammerman '81 said Friday, "The lottery seems fair. Masters do not choose you any more; you just get stuck in a computer.
A spokesman for the dean's office at MIT's engineering school said Tuesday she could not recall such a grant. Paul McQuillan, administrative assistant in MIT's electrical engineering and computer science department, said Tuesday he had not heard of the award either.
...more than a million believers in the U.S. The word is spread in books, newsletters, a syndicated column and shopping-mall computers that churn out daily charts for 50?. There is a biorhythm service predicting the results of professional football games ($99 a season), and several dozen companies supply computerized charts and such biorhythm hardware as calculator watches ($169) and a Biocom desk computer ($3,000). One company, Kosmos International of Atlanta, supplies charts for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League and sells 10,000 electronic biorhythm calculators a month, including a "love machine" for women who want...
What else may biorhythm be applied to? Opportunities are limitless, says Pete Callinicos, a captain in the Denver fire department who runs a biorhythm business on the side. Callinicos says the theory can put compatible policemen in squad cars, determine the patterns of arsonists and maybe even prevent birth defects...