Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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It would have been Washington's biggest Big Brother. The so-called Tax Administration System, built around a monstrous $850 million computer, was going to give Internal Revenue Service staffers at 8,300 terminals in the ten regional IRS centers around the U.S. instant access to the financial records...
DIED. Kurt Gödel, 71, Moravian-born professor at the Institute for Advanced Study (1953-76) who was regarded as one of the world's leading logicians; of heart disease; in Princeton, N.J. Formulated in 1931, Gödel's Theorem became a cornerstone of 20th century...
Campus ferment reached its climax last spring in widespread leftist-led student protests over bleak job prospects for new graduates and chronically overcrowded classrooms. At Milan University young "proletarian committees" brought teaching to a standstill, destroyed books and scientific instruments. At Bocconi University, a Milan business school, three masked urban...
The plight of the cowboy in the age of computer ranching is a familiar story. Journalist Jane Kramer nevertheless manages to refresh the tale with a selection of tactful though telling observations and details that, with allowances for scenery and idiom, remind one of Jane Austen at Mansfield Park. "Onion...
The legend in Dallas is that Cowboy Owner Clint Murchison bought a computer company solely to complement and exploit his coach's style. Whatever the case, one of the electronic brains was soon harnessed to answer a difficult question: Which young men could play successfully under Landry's byzantine flex...