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Word: computerize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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For 24 hours the officers of Chicago's First National Bank could not believe its calculating machines. Precisely $1 million in $50 and $100 bills was missing from one of the bank's subterranean vaults, and auditors kept combing the records to see if a bookkeeper had erred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Chicago's Great Bank Heist | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

In a far more serious incident, on Jan. 9, 1973, the Mounties broke into a Parti Québ&3233;cois office in Montreal. According to federal Solicitor General Francis Fox, the Mounties lifted computer tapes containing the P.Q.'s membership list and financial records and copied the documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Mountie Morass | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

The facilities at Medford High, located on a hill next to a woodland preserve, are superb. Eight interconnected stone and brick buildings in one giant comprehensive and vocational school, with a gym just short of a football field in size and the second largest indoor swimming pool in the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Schools Under Fire | 11/14/1977 | See Source »

When Matthews arrived in Cambridge, however, the situation changed and his father began feeding him reams of data to run through the computer.

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: My Computer Is My Bookie | 11/4/1977 | See Source »

Some professional prognosticators such as Danny Sheridan claim psychic powers. A novel technique of predicting by using biorhythms is also gaining a foothold in the trade, but Matthews's advise to would-be soothsayers is: "You have to have a good math background, know what statistical methods are available and...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: My Computer Is My Bookie | 11/4/1977 | See Source »

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